Appalachia's path to dependency : rethinking a region's economic history, 1730-1940 /

Appalachia's path to dependency : rethinking a region's economic history, 1730-1940 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Salstrom, Paul, 1940-
Imprint:	Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1994.
Description:	xxxvi, 204 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Poor -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. Economic history. Poor. Social conditions Appalachian Region, Southern -- Economic conditions. Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions. Appalachian Region, Southern. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1604312

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ISBN:	0813118603 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-190) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Issue
1. Early Settlement and Self-Sufficiency, 1730-1860
2. Accelerated Agricultural Decline and Adverse Federal Policy, 1860-1880
3. Rural Appalachia's Subsistence-Barter-and-Borrow Systems
4. Labor-intensive Mining and the Subsistence Reproduction of Labor Power, 1880-1930
5. The New Deal and Appalachia's Industry
6. The New Deal and Appalachia's Agriculture
7. The Welfare of Rural Appalachia.