The road to poverty : the making of wealth and hardship in Appalachia / Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Billings, Dwight B., 1948-

Contributor:

Blee, Kathleen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Appalachian Region.

Poverty.

Income distribution.

Economic policy.

Appalachian Region--Economic policy.

Appalachian Region.

Income distribution--Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

xiv, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities.

Contents:

I. Public Policy and Historical Sociology 1

II. Antebellum Capitalist Markets 25

2. Frontier Kentucky in the Capitalist World System 27

3. Industry, Commerce, and Slaveholding 51

III. Antebellum State Coercion 103

4. State Making and the Origins of Elite Conflict 105

Photo Essay 137

IV. Cultural Strategies 155

5. The Patriarchal Moral Economy of Agriculture 157

6. Racial Dynamics and the Creation of Poverty 208

V. Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State 241

7. From Marginality to Integration 243

8. Feud Violence / Pam Goldman, Sharon Hardesty, Lee Hardesty 281

Appendix 1. Data and Methodology 339

Appendix 2. Genealogies 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-426) and index.

ISBN:

0521652294

0521655463

OCLC:

40347543