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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10697974.
- catalog coverage "West Virginia Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "West Virginia Environmental conditions.".
- catalog coverage "West Virginia Social conditions.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "1. The Virgin Forest and the Backcounty Economy -- 2. The Touch of Capital: Railroads, Timber, and Economic Development of the Backcounties -- 3. Land, Capital, and Timber Operations at the Periphery -- 4. Making Capital Secure: Law and the Industrial Transformation of West Virginia -- 5. Workers in the Woods -- 6. Ethnicity, Exploitation, and Social Conflict -- 7. Connecting the Periphery: Commercialization of the Countryside -- 8. "New Men" versus "Old Men": Political Economy and the Country Seat Wars -- 9. The Market Revolution and the Decline of Agriculture -- 10. If Trees Could Cuss: Environmental Destruction and the Beginnings of Restoration.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-337) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 348 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Transforming the Appalachian countryside.".
- catalog identifier "0807824054 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807847062 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Transforming the Appalachian countryside.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Transforming the Appalachian countryside.".
- catalog spatial "West Virginia Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "West Virginia Environmental conditions.".
- catalog spatial "West Virginia Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "West Virginia.".
- catalog subject "338.9754 21".
- catalog subject "HC107.W5 L39 1998".
- catalog subject "Industrialization West Virginia.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Virgin Forest and the Backcounty Economy -- 2. The Touch of Capital: Railroads, Timber, and Economic Development of the Backcounties -- 3. Land, Capital, and Timber Operations at the Periphery -- 4. Making Capital Secure: Law and the Industrial Transformation of West Virginia -- 5. Workers in the Woods -- 6. Ethnicity, Exploitation, and Social Conflict -- 7. Connecting the Periphery: Commercialization of the Countryside -- 8. "New Men" versus "Old Men": Political Economy and the Country Seat Wars -- 9. The Market Revolution and the Decline of Agriculture -- 10. If Trees Could Cuss: Environmental Destruction and the Beginnings of Restoration.".
- catalog title "Transforming the Appalachian countryside : railroads, deforestation, and social change in West Virginia, 1880-1920 / Ronald L. Lewis.".
- catalog type "text".