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Ramp Hollow : the ordeal of Appalachia / Steven Stoll.

By: Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780809095056 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.3/174 23
LOC classification:
  • HD210.A66 S76 2017
Contents:
Contemporary ancestors : from Daniel Boone to Hill-Billy -- Provision grounds : on capitalism and the Atlantic peasantry -- The Rye Rebellion : why Alexander Hamilton invaded the mountains -- Mountaineers are always free : on losing land and livelihood -- Interlude : Agrarian twilight: the art of dispossession -- The captured garden : subsistence under industrial capitalism -- Negotiated settlements : the fate of the commons and the commoners.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-385) and index.

Contemporary ancestors : from Daniel Boone to Hill-Billy -- Provision grounds : on capitalism and the Atlantic peasantry -- The Rye Rebellion : why Alexander Hamilton invaded the mountains -- Mountaineers are always free : on losing land and livelihood -- Interlude : Agrarian twilight: the art of dispossession -- The captured garden : subsistence under industrial capitalism -- Negotiated settlements : the fate of the commons and the commoners.

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