...John Hennen A History of Appalachia . Richard B. Drake . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 115 A History of Appalachia. By Richard B. Drake. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. 318 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 0-8131-2169-8. Richard Drake...

...Sarah T. Phillips Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia . By Sara M. Gregg . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2010 . 304 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-14219-8 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Gabrielle M. Lanier The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950 . Tom Lee . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Winter Ruffin found the fifteen-hundred-acre plantation that he inherited in the same shape as much of his...

...? Un vaquero. There was a silence. Vaqueros siempre. Vaqueros Desde el comienzo. Since the beginning (3). always, he said finally. Ron McCoy Emporia State University To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia. By Chad Montrie. Chapel Hill: University of North...

...Christopher R. Lawton Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840–1900 . Kevin E. O’Donnell Helen Hoolingsworth . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturalHistory Winter a totallydifferenmt ethodologysince it is unprecedentedto specifically...

...Tom Lee Abstract Over the past three decades, scholars have delved deeply into the post–Civil War industrialization of Appalachia. Although often they have identified agricultural conditions in the mountains as a major factor shaping the emergence of industry in the region, they have paid less...

... interactive process that often results in unforeseen and destructive outcomes. Because Appalachian studies has been bedeviled by problems of defini? tion, Davis begins by asking where and what Appalachia is. Geography, poli? tics, history, ethnicity, and culture have variously been used as markers to de? fine...

...Sara M. Gregg Abstract The small upcountry farms of Southern Appalachia were slowly fading away during the early twentieth century, but pockets of self-sufficient farms remained in places like the northern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. These farmers, responsive to the constraints...

.... By John B. Rehder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.368 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 0-8018-7879-9. John Rehder's latest book, Appalachian Folkways, sets out not only to update old assumptions about Appalachia but also to demystify the region and its 264 / Agricultural History people...

... scott point out in their essay studying appalachia, the field needs to begin to focus more attention on northern appalachia and better compare the region with similar places throughout the world. Moreover, appalachian studies should strive to include the voices of minority groups in the region, most...

... at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915. By Robert S. Weise. Knoxville: Univer? sity of Tennessee Press, 2001. 374 pp., $40.00, hardback, ISBN 1-57233112-7. The indispensable archives of Appalachia are the numerous county courthouses that preserve the documents...

... of appalachian studies, but to also provide a blueprint for future research on the region. as Phillip Obermiller and shaunna scott point out in their essay studying appalachia, the field needs to begin to focus more attention on northern appalachia and better compare the region with similar places throughout...

... distinctive subgroups in America. Their loyalty to family and country, their suspicion of outsiders, and their notorious tempers separate them from other whites and minorities even within Appalachia. Those traits also travel with Appalachians in exile. Apparently borrowing from long-standing mountain...

... relationship with nature as an ever-changing interactive process that often results in unforeseen and destructive outcomes. Because Appalachian studies has been bedeviled by problems of defini? tion, Davis begins by asking where and what Appalachia is. Geography, poli? tics, history, ethnicity, and culture...

... on the principles of sustainable development to promote economic growth and self-sufficiency (108). amanda Fickey and Michael samers also conclude that place-based approaches are crucial in achieving the goal of sustainability. in the essay developing appalachia, they encourage scholars and activists to focus...

..., Kentucky. Settled by hunters and subsistence farmers in the nineteenth century, the Big South Fork basin, like many areas of Appalachia, experienced extensive economic development in the early twentieth century, when logging and mining companies tapped into the area's natural resources. By the mid...

... fueled dreams of sudden richeswithin Appalachian communities since the earliest Euro-American settlement of that region. Even as the fate of timber and coal industries have risen and fallen, ginseng harvesting has been a persistent cottage industry among Appalachia's rural residents.Moreover, ginseng...

... culture and by promoting its preservation, but shies away from the economic and so? cial problems that face the region and its folk culture. He refers repeatedly to the "splendid isolation and preservation" of Appalachia in the early twentieth century, and seems to regret the arrival of modernity (29...

.... Settled by hunters and subsistence farmers in the nineteenth century, the Big South Fork basin, like many areas of Appalachia, experienced extensive economic development in the early twentieth century, when logging and mining companies tapped into the area's natural resources. By the mid-twentieth century...

... counties (concentrated in the West and Appalachia), 315 specialized gov? ernment counties (not regionally concentrated), 242 counties in persistent poverty (concentrated in the Southeast), 247 federal lands counties (con? centrated in the West and in other, heavily forested regions), and 515 retire? ment...