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- catalog abstract ""This innovative look at antebellum Southwest Virginia disputes traditional Appalachian scholarship, which has maintained that industrialization in the area occurred after 1880. Kenneth Noe shows how mountain modernization began decades earlier, with a regional railroad that contributed to support for secession and the Confederacy. Combining an adept use of anecdote and detail with analysis of the written record, Noe shows that many supporters of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad viewed it as a political tool, believing it would spread slavery and unite the state. He focuses on the railroad's economic fruits -- integration of the region into the tobacco kingdom, urbanization, a growth in industry, and the spread of slavery -- and shows how these brought about political results. By 1860, the author argues, the railroad had indeed increased the region's dependence on slavery, deepening its immersion in the capitalist marketplace, and strengthened its ties to the state capital"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b5730990.
- catalog coverage "Virginia Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""The railroad is completed to Bristol" -- "The most favored region for agriculture" : white mountaineers and commercial agriculture -- "Numerous interesting points on the line" : towns, tourism, and industries -- "A source of great economy" : the railroad and slavery -- "No other chance for us" : secession -- "Our land in every part groaning" : the Civil War begins, 1861-62 -- "What will become of the poor and widows?" : deprivation and defeat, 1862-65.".
- catalog description ""This innovative look at antebellum Southwest Virginia disputes traditional Appalachian scholarship, which has maintained that industrialization in the area occurred after 1880. Kenneth Noe shows how mountain modernization began decades earlier, with a regional railroad that contributed to support for secession and the Confederacy. Combining an adept use of anecdote and detail with analysis of the written record, Noe shows that many supporters of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad viewed it as a political tool, believing it would spread slavery and unite the state. He focuses on the railroad's economic fruits -- integration of the region into the tobacco kingdom, urbanization, a growth in industry, and the spread of slavery -- and shows how these brought about political results. By 1860, the author argues, the railroad had indeed increased the region's dependence on slavery, deepening its immersion in the capitalist marketplace, and strengthened its ties to the state capital"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-207) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 221 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Southwest Virginia's railroad.".
- catalog identifier "0252020707 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Southwest Virginia's railroad.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Southwest Virginia's railroad.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia".
- catalog subject "385/.09755/7 20".
- catalog subject "HE2771.V8 N64 1994".
- catalog subject "Railroads Virginia History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""The railroad is completed to Bristol" -- "The most favored region for agriculture" : white mountaineers and commercial agriculture -- "Numerous interesting points on the line" : towns, tourism, and industries -- "A source of great economy" : the railroad and slavery -- "No other chance for us" : secession -- "Our land in every part groaning" : the Civil War begins, 1861-62 -- "What will become of the poor and widows?" : deprivation and defeat, 1862-65.".
- catalog title "Southwest Virginia's railroad : modernization and the sectional crisis / Kenneth W. Noe.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".