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A handbook to Appalachia : an introduction to the region / edited by Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust Asbury, Ricky L. Cox.
- Title
- A handbook to Appalachia : an introduction to the region / edited by Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust Asbury, Ricky L. Cox.
- Publication
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.
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- Description
- xvi, 279 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- A Handbook to Appalachia provides a clear, concise first step toward understanding the expanding field of Appalachian studies, from the history of the area to its sometimes conflicted image, from its music and folklore to its outstanding literature. Also includes information on African Americans, Asheville, (North Carolina), ballads, baskets, bluegrass music, blues music, Cherokee Indians, Cincinnati (Ohio), Churches, Civil War, coal, cultural diversity, death, folk culture, food, Georgia, health, immigration, industry, Irish, Kentucky, Midwest, migration, Melungeons, Native Americans, North Carolina, out-migration, politics, population, poverty, Radford University, schools, Scotch-Irish, Scotland, South Carolina, storytelling, strip mining, Tennessee, Ulster Scots, Virginia, West Virginia, Women, etc.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Handbooks and manuals
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Appalachian history / Richard Straw -- Peoples of Appalachia: cultural diversity within the mountain region / Stevan R. Jackson -- Natural resources and environment of Appalachia / David L. Rouse and L. Sue Greer-Pitt -- The economy of Appalachia / Thomas R. Shannon -- The politics of change in Appalachia / Stephen L. Fisher ... [et al.] -- Health care in Appalachia / Anne B. Blakeney -- Education in Appalachia / Sharon Teets -- Appalachian folklife / Deborah Thompson and Irene Moser -- Appalachian music: examining popular assumptions / Ted Olson and Ajay Kalra -- Religion in Appalachia / Melinda Bollar Wagner -- Appalachian literature / Danny Miller ... [et al.] -- Visual arts in Appalachia / M. Anna Fariello -- Appalachians outside the region / Phillip J. Obermiller, Michael E. Maloney, and Pauletta Hansel.
- ISBN
- 1572334592 (pbk.)
- 9781572334595
- LCCN
- ^^2005019799
- OCLC
- 61115474
- SCSB-11093547
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