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The first American frontier : transition to capitalism in southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 / Wilma A. Dunaway.
Lippincott Library HC107.A127 B86 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunaway, Wilma A.
- Series:
- Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
- The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Appalachian Region--History.
- Capitalism.
- Capitalism--Southern States--History.
- History.
- Appalachian Region--Economic conditions.
- Appalachian Region.
- Economic conditions.
- Southern States--Economic conditions.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Outsiders have had a long-running love affair with Southern Appalachia. Setting forth at the Gulf of Mexico, the Spaniards undertook three sixteenth-century expeditions into the inland mountains to search for silver and the 'fountain of youth' among the vast indigenous chiefdoms of northern Georgia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-433) and index.
- "Publication of this book has been supported by a generous grant from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation." -- T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0807822361
- 080784540X
- OCLC:
- 31970581
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