Autor: Dwight B. Billings

Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and ‘other’ because of their …

Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan’s 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play T …

This charming account of life in Appalachia at the turn of the century is one of the three most important books from the early twentieth century that, as Dwight Billings writes in his foreword, have …

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies—a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together ar …

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies—a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together ar …

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state’s cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned by prominent planters and agrarians. He shows …

Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan’s 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play …

Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and ‘other’ because of their …

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state’s cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned by prominent planters and agrarians. He shows …