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1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
ISBN:
9781582439945
Content:
Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region, but few, if any, of its many heroes, visionaries, or innovators are ever referenced. Make no mistake, they are legion: from Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, to Sequoyah, a Cherokee mountaineer who invented the first syllabary in modern times, and international divas Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, as well as writers Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, Appalachia has contributed mightily to American culture and politics. Not only did eastern Tennessee boast the country's first antislavery newspaper, Appalachians also established the first District of Washington as a bold counterpoint to British rule. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers reminds us how Appalachians have defined and shaped the United States we know today
Content:
Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Rank Strangers -- One: The Trail of Words -- Two: The First Washington, D.C. -- Three: Down from the Mountain -- Four: The Emancipators -- Five : All the News Thatâs Fit to Print -- Six : The Great American Industrial Saga -- Seven: We Shall Overcome -- Epilogue: We Are All Appalachians -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic Notes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781593761516
Additional Edition:
Print version Biggers, Jeff The United States of Appalachia : How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America Berkeley : Counterpoint,c2007 ISBN 9781593761516
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English
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