High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025202916X ISBN 13: 9780252029165

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Synopsis

A collection of 14 original essays which covers the major issues in Appalachian history and culture.

About this title

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 the Author

Richard A. Straw is a historian at Radford University where he teaches courses on Appalachian, Southern, and public history. He is the author of two other books in the Images of America series, Blacksburg and Athens. All of the photographs in this book are from the Michael Miley Collection at Washington and Lee University and are used with their generous permission.

H. Tyler Blethen is Creighton Sossomon Professor of History and director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025202916X
• ISBN 13: 9780252029165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Straw Richard A., Blethen H. Tyler