Transforming the Appalachian countryside : railroads, deforestation, and social change in West Virginia, 1880-1920 /
In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, W...
| Основен автор: | Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭1998.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41404 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Transforming the Appalachian countryside. |
| Резюме: |
In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Eventually, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xv, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-337) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0807862975 9780807862971 |