High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place - Softcover

Straw, Richard A.; Blethen, H. Tyler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025207176X ISBN 13: 9780252071768

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Synopsis

This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture. Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen's High Mountains Rising provides a clear, systematic, and engaging overview of the Appalachian timeline, its people, and the most significant aspects of life in the region.
 
The first half of the fourteen essays deal with historical issues including Native Americans, pioneer settlement, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, the Great Depression, migration, and finally, modernization.  The remaining essays take a more cultural focus, addressing stereotypes, music, folklife, language, literature, and religion.
 
Bringing together many of the most prestigious scholars in Appalachian studies, this volume has been designed for general and classroom use, and includes suggestions for further reading.
 

About this title

About the Author

Richard A. Straw is professor of history at Radford University, the author of Images of America: Blacksburg, and has published articles on Appalachian foodways, on Mike Seeger, and on the United Mine Workers of America, coal mining, and historical photography. H. Tyler Blethen is Creighton Sossomon Professor of History and director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, and a coeditor of Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 025207176X
• ISBN 13: 9780252071768
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240