Miners, millhands, and mountaineers : industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930 / by Ronald D. Eller.

Main entry:

Eller, Ronald D., 1948-

Title & Author:

Miners, millhands, and mountaineers : industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930 / by Ronald D. Eller.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xxvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Twentieth-century America series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index.
Industrialization and social change in Appalachia : a look at the static image -- On the eve of a remarkable development -- A magnificent field for capitalists -- The last great trees -- The ascendancy of coal -- Coal, culture, and community : life in the company towns -- Profits and power : the coal barons -- Modernization and the mountaineer.

Summary:

"As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys." -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal.

ISBN:

087049340X
9780870493409
0870493418 (pbk.)
9780870493416 (pbk.)

Subject:

Economic history
Social conditions
Industrialisierung
Sozialgeschichte 1880-1930.
Appalachian Region, Southern Economic conditions.
Appalachian Region, Southern Social conditions.
Appalachian Region, Southern History.
Appalaches (Sud), Région des Conditions économiques.
Appalaches (Sud), Région des Conditions sociales.
Appalaches (Sud), Région des Histoire.
Appalaches (Sud) Conditions économiques.
Appalaches (Sud) Conditions sociales.
Appalaches (Sud) Histoire.
Southern Appalachian Region
Appalachen Süd

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Twentieth-century America series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 71491
Call No.: PO8148; ID:86-B11564
Status: Available

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