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Our Appalachia an oral history
Title
Our Appalachia [electronic resource] : an oral history / edited by Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg ; photographs by Donald R. Anderson.
ISBN
0813158249
9780813158242
9780813101842
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1988. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 397 pages) :) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Includes index.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Prepared through the Appalachian Oral History Project.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1977.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Many books have been written about Appalachia, but few have voiced its concerns with the warmth and directness of this one. From hundreds of interviews gathered by the Appalachian Oral History Project, editors Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg have woven a rich verbal tapestry that portrays the people and the region in all their variety. The words on the page have the ring of truth, for these are the people of Appalachia speaking for themselves. Here they recollect an earlier time of isolation but of independence and neighborliness. For a nearer time they tell of the great changes that took place in Appalachia with the growth of coal mining and railroads and the disruption of old ways. Persisting through the years and sounding clearly in the interviews are the dignity of the Appalachian people and their close ties with the land, despite the exploitation and change they have endured. When first published, Our Appalachia was widely praised. This new edition again makes available an authentic source of social history for all those with an interest in the region.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2016
Contents
Introduction
A simpler time
God, badmen, and schoolmarms
Hearthstones and homelife
Working
Culture under attack
Outside influences
From farms and hollows to camp towns
A people's response
The cruel choice
Digging in
"We're not playing catch up"
The narrators.
Subjects
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Appalachian Oral History Project, issuing body.
Project Muse, distributor.
Project Muse.
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