Description
Book SynopsisProvides a systematic overview of the Appalachian timeline, its people, and significant aspects of life in the region. This work also focuses on addressing stereotypes, music, folk life, language, literature, and religion.
Trade ReviewAppalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.
"This stimulating, readable collection of essays gives a fine overview of Appalachia, its history, its people, and different aspects of life in the region over time that range from economic and social life to literature and folklore."--Loyal Jones, former director of the Berea College Appalachian Center and author of
Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands"What a fine addition to books about Appalachia. . . . It is an anthology that serves as the single best introduction to the whole idea of Appalachia. . . . The authors of the selections are quite simply the foremost experts in their fields, and they have managed to create entries which serve as excellent introductions to their topics while at the same time they are stimulating to the already well-informed."--
Appalachian Heritage"The first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture."--
Black Issues Book Review"Blethen and Straw should be commended for their work compiling and editing this important and very accessible collection. The individual essays hang together well, and there is an impressive internal consistency between them. . . .
High Mountains Rising should be, and undoubtedly will be, widely used in Appalachian Studies classes."--
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi
Introduction 1
Richard A. Straw 1. Native Americans 7
C. Clifford Boyd Jr. 2. Pioneer Settlement 17
H. Tyler Blethen 3. Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century 30
John C. Inscoe 4. The Civil War and Reconstruction 46
Gordon B. McKinney 5. Industrialization 59
Ronald L. Lewis 6. The Great Depression 74
Paul Salstrom 7. Migration 88
Phillip J. Obermiller 8. Stereotypes 101
David C. Hsiung 9. Music 114
Bill C. Malone 10. Folklife 135
Michael Ann Williams 11. English Language 147
Michael Montgomery 12. Literature 165
Ted Olson 13. Religion 179
Deborah Vansau McCauley 14. Modernization, 1940-2000 197
Ronald D Eller Suggested Readings 221
Contributors 231
Index 235
