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This fascinating in-depth history celebrates Appalachian heroes from Nina Simone to Cormac McCarthy, challenging traditional stereotypes of the American South.
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-03 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian pa
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Authors: Richard B. Drake
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Appalachia on Our Mind
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Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this i
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