Appalachia's path to dependency: rethinking a region's economic history 1730-1940
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1. Verfasser: Salstrom, Paul (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentucky ©1994
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-190) and index
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
The debate over the source of Appalachia's economic problems has been going strong since Harry Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands appeared in 1963. Now a new study illuminates the region's plight, making a vital contribution to the understanding of this area's critical economic dilemma
In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia. Moving away from the colonial model to an analysis based on dependency, he exposes the complex web of factors - regulation of credit, industrialization, population growth, cultural values, federal intervention - that has worked against the region
Salstrom argues that economic adversity has resulted from three types of disadvantages: natural, market, and political. The overall context in which Appalachia's economic life unfolded was one of expanding United States markets and, after the Civil War, of expanding capitalist relations
Covering the entire span of Appalachia's economic history, from the early white settlement to the end of the New Deal, this work is not simply an economic interpretation but draws as well on other areas of history. Salstrom compares Appalachia with the Midwest at mid-nineteenth century, today's Appalachia with Third World countries, and the region with Japan
Whereas other interpretations of Appalachia's economy have tended to seek social or psychological explanations for its dependency, this important work compels us to look directly at the region's economic history. This regional perspective offers a clear-eyed view of Appalachia's path in the future
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 204 pages)
ISBN:0813118603
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9780813118604
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