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Title Colonialism in modern America : the Appalachian case / edited by Helen Lewis, Linda Johnson, & Donald Askins
Published [Boone, North Carolina] : Appalachian State University, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface / Donald N. Anderson -- Introduction : the colony of Appalachia / Helen Matthews Lewis -- Section I. The colonialism model -- The colonialism model : the Appalachian case / Helen M. Lewis and Edward E. Knipe -- Section II. The acquisition of resources -- Industrialization and social change in Appalachia, 1880-1930 : a look at the static image / Ronald D. Eller -- Appalachia : America's mineral colony / Jack Weller -- The impact of recreational development on pioneer life styles in South Appalachia / Edgar Bingham -- Letter to Sir Denys Flowerdew Low-son / Ralph Nader -- The forest service and Appalachia / Si Kahn -- Section III. The establishment of control -- Family, religion and colonialism in Central Appalachia : bury my rifle at Big Stone Gap / Helen Matthews Lewis, Sue Easterling Kobak and Linda Johnson -- Property, coal, and theft / John Gaventa -- The big steal / Warren Wright -- The land development rag / Anita Parlow -- Education and exploitation / Mike Clark -- Section IV. The maintenance of control -- Annihilating the hillbilly : the Appalachians' struggle with America's institutions / James G. Branscome -- Our own music / Rich Kirb -- John Fox, Jr. : a re-appraisal : or, With friends like that, who needs enemies? / Donald Askins -- The Pittston mentality : manslaughter on Buffalo Creek / Thomas N. Bethell and Davitt McAteer -- Coal government of Appalachia : Appalachian Research and Defense Fund Task Force -- The federal government in Appalachia : TVA / James Branscome -- Hidden traps of regionalism / Phil Primack -- Section V. Rethinking the model -- Appalachia : a colony within a colony? / Dennis N. Lindberg -- Internal colony or internal periphery? A critique of current models and an alternative formulation / David S. Walls -- Extending the internal periphery model : the impact of culture and consequent strategy / Thomas S. Plaut -- Suggestions for further reading and research
Notes Cover title
"This work, originally published by the Appalachian Consortium Press, has been reissued in an edition unaltered from its original publication. Open access editions of this and other Appalachian Consortium Press publications are available"--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-370)
Notes Print version record
Subject Colonies -- Case studies
Social systems.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Colonies
Economic history
Social conditions
Social systems
SUBJECT Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions
Subject Appalachian Region
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, Helen Matthews, editor
Johnson, Linda, 1949- editor.
Askins, Donald, 1935- editor.
ISBN 9781469642062
1469642069