{"product_id":"high-mountains-rising-9780252071768","title":"High Mountains Rising","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eFaith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eAppalachian Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture.\"--\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. . . . \u003ci\u003eHigh Mountains Rising\u003c\/i\u003e should be, and undoubtedly will be, widely used in Appalachian Studies classes.\"--\u003ci\u003eAppalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   vi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1   \u003ci\u003eRichard A. Straw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Native Americans   7   \u003ci\u003eC. Clifford Boyd Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pioneer Settlement   17   \u003ci\u003eH. Tyler Blethen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century   30   \u003ci\u003eJohn C. Inscoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Civil War and Reconstruction   46   \u003ci\u003eGordon B. McKinney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Industrialization   59   \u003ci\u003eRonald L. Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Great Depression   74   \u003ci\u003ePaul Salstrom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Migration   88   \u003ci\u003ePhillip J. Obermiller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Stereotypes   101   \u003ci\u003eDavid C. Hsiung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Music   114   \u003ci\u003eBill C. Malone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Folklife   135   \u003ci\u003eMichael Ann Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. English Language   147   \u003ci\u003eMichael Montgomery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Literature   165   \u003ci\u003eTed Olson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Religion   179   \u003ci\u003eDeborah Vansau McCauley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Modernization, 1940-2000   197   \u003ci\u003eRonald D Eller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suggested Readings   221\u003cbr\u003e Contributors   231\u003cbr\u003e Index   235\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400474566999,"sku":"9780252071768","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252071768.jpg?v=1730470774","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/high-mountains-rising-9780252071768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}