Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic History, 1730-1940University Press of Kentucky, 1994 M01 1 - 204 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Early Settlement and SelfSufficiency 17301860 | 1 |
Accelerated Agricultural Decline and Adverse Federal Policy 18601880 | 20 |
Rural Appalachians SubsistenceBarterandBorrow Systems | 41 |
Laborintensive Mining and the Subsistence Reproduction of Labor Power 18801930 | 60 |
The New Deal and Appalachian Industry | 83 |
The New Deal and Appalachian Agriculture | 94 |
The Welfare of Rural Appalachia | 111 |
Conclusion | 122 |
Notes | 139 |
Bibliography | 170 |
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