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- catalog abstract ""Appalachia's transformation from farms to coal fields has been previously analyzed from divergent viewpoints. Robert Weise now offers a new understanding of preindustrial Appalachia and its transition to industrial capitalism, reconstructing the social and economic behavior of local residents to show how the circumstances that defined the region's household economy also predisposed it to exploitation." "By closely studying the strategic blend of land ownership, subsistence agriculture, and commerce, Weise reveals how white male farmers in Floyd County attempted to achieve and preserve patriarchal authority and independence - and how this household localism laid the foundation for the region's development during the industrial era. By shifting attention from the actions of industrialists to those of local residents, he reconciles contradictory views of antebellum Appalachia and offers a new understanding of the region's history and its people."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12176820.
- catalog coverage "Floyd County (Ky.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Floyd County (Ky.) Rural conditions.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Appalachia's transformation from farms to coal fields has been previously analyzed from divergent viewpoints. Robert Weise now offers a new understanding of preindustrial Appalachia and its transition to industrial capitalism, reconstructing the social and economic behavior of local residents to show how the circumstances that defined the region's household economy also predisposed it to exploitation."".
- catalog description ""By closely studying the strategic blend of land ownership, subsistence agriculture, and commerce, Weise reveals how white male farmers in Floyd County attempted to achieve and preserve patriarchal authority and independence - and how this household localism laid the foundation for the region's development during the industrial era. By shifting attention from the actions of industrialists to those of local residents, he reconciles contradictory views of antebellum Appalachia and offers a new understanding of the region's history and its people."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Floyd County to 1865 -- A local society -- Wealth and power -- Debt and commercial exchange -- Producing subsistence -- Logging -- Property and independence -- Corporate accumulation of land -- Selling mineral rights -- Into the mining era.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-366) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 374 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1572331127 (hardcover)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
- catalog spatial "Floyd County (Ky.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Floyd County (Ky.) Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky Floyd County".
- catalog subject "976.9/22 21".
- catalog subject "Agricultural industries Kentucky Floyd County History.".
- catalog subject "Coal trade Kentucky Floyd County History.".
- catalog subject "HC107.K42 F559 2001".
- catalog subject "Mineral rights Kentucky Floyd County History.".
- catalog subject "Rural industries Kentucky Floyd County History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Floyd County to 1865 -- A local society -- Wealth and power -- Debt and commercial exchange -- Producing subsistence -- Logging -- Property and independence -- Corporate accumulation of land -- Selling mineral rights -- Into the mining era.".
- catalog title "Grasping at independence : debt, male authority, and mineral rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915 / Robert S. Weise.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".