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Author : Brian O'Neill
Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
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Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book The Paris of Appalachia written by Brian O'Neill and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Whitest large metro area in the counrty -- Deer people.
Author : Richard Drake
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171164
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book A History of Appalachia written by Richard Drake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region’s rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region’s rural character.
Author : Wayne E. Gross
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guide to the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania written by Wayne E. Gross and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers 229 miles from Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to the town of Pen Mar on the Maryland border. Five multicolored topographic maps, with elevation profiles, produced by the Keystone Trails Association and Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
Author : Matthew J. Ferrence
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Appalachia North written by Matthew J. Ferrence and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--roughly the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and yet not quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth.
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Total Pages : 968 pages
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Download or read book Appalachia written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pennsylvania State Planning Board
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Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Pennsylvania Appalachian Development Plan written by Pennsylvania State Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Alexander Williams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860522
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Appalachia written by John Alexander Williams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy fate during the Civil War, and the emergence of a new industrial order as railroads, towns, and extractive industries penetrated deeper and deeper into the mountains. Finally, he considers Appalachia's fate in the twentieth century, when it became the first American region to suffer widespread deindustrialization, and examines the partial renewal created by federal intervention and a small but significant wave of in-migration. Throughout the book, a wide range of Appalachian voices enlivens the analysis and reminds us of the importance of storytelling in the ways the people of Appalachia define themselves and their region.
Author : Allan Spader
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Appalachia Pennsylvania written by Allan Spader and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1190 pages
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Download or read book Appalachia written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia Bonta
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822954422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Appalachian Spring written by Marcia Bonta and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived on a 500-acre mountain-top farm in central Pennsylvania for twenty years. Appalachian Spring is her personal account of that glorious spectacle - the coming of the spring to the woods and fields of Appalachia.
Author : Pennsylvania State Planning Board
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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book A Plan for Public Investment in Appalachia Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania State Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Community Health Services Bureau
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Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Conference on Primary Health Care in Appalachia, Report of Proceedings, 1975 written by United States. Community Health Services Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book Conference on Primary Health Care in Appalachia, October 5-7, 1974, Sheraton Motor Inn & Greenville Technical Education Center, Greenville, South Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John D. Photiadis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512805866
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Change in Rural Appalachia written by John D. Photiadis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia is a region in trouble. Even in the more remote coves and hollows, major social and economic changes are disturbing the traditional ways of life. The conditions which have made it a pocket of poverty cannot be easily eradicated; and the rapid changes of recent years have added further severe problems of adjustment which deeply affect the family, church life, education, the folk subculture, and, above all, the individual. Outmigration, psychological dislocation, and cultural alienation are the result. The nine contributing scholars have lived and worked in Appalachia; they know the people and their customs, their problems and their needs. They are thoroughly familiar with the programs now in operation, and are well qualified to evaluate their success or failure in terms of those needs. Furthermore, their findings can be applied to other regions and nations, wherever an isolated group has been abruptly incorporated into the mainstream of society while many of its peculiar problems remain unsolved. Rural Appalachia may in fact be considered a microcosm of the underdeveloped nations of the world; the issues raised here far transcend the importance of a regional study. The essays are grouped according to four general areas of research. The first part deals with the individual in his society; the second with six social institutions—economy, government, family, religion, education, and power structure; the third with methods and objectives of change; and the fourth with the aims of change agencies, particularly the Extension Service of the future. As the tangle of problems, strains, and tensions is explored, the focus remains steadily upon immediate and longterm effects on the individual. The book is dedicated to "the professional field workers in programs of directed change . . . struggling on the one hand with ideas, theories, and conceptual innovations, and on the other hand with the immediate realities of the local situations."
Author : United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Development of Water Resources in Appalachia written by United States. Office of Appalachian Studies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Development of Water Resources in Appalachia: Errata and addenda written by United States. Office of Appalachian Studies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph L. Scarpaci
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971047
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh and the Appalachians written by Joseph L. Scarpaci and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few American cities reflect the challenges and promise of a twenty-first-century economy better than Pittsburgh and its surrounding region. Once a titan of the industrial age, Pittsburgh flourished from the benefits of its waterways, central location, and natural resources-bituminous coal to fire steel furnaces; salt and sand for glass making; gas, oil, and just enough ore to spark an early iron industry. Today, like many cities located in the manufacturing triangle that stretches from Boston to Duluth to St. Louis, Pittsburgh has made the transition to a service-based economy.Pittsburgh and the Appalachians presents a collection of eighteen essays that explore the advantages and disadvantages that Pittsburgh and its surrounding region face in the new global economy, from the perspectives of technology, natural resources, workforce, and geography. It offers an extensive examination of the processes and factors that have transformed much of industrial America during the past half-century, and shows how other cities can learn from the steps Pittsburgh has taken through redevelopment, green space acquisition, air and water quality improvement, cultural revival, and public-private partnerships to create a more livable, economically viable region for future populations.
