Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies – serie
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Arthurdale Community School
Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia
Av Sam F Stack
Inbunden, 2016
972 kr
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The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. …
Appalachia Revisited
New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress
Av William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
Inbunden, 2016
837 kr
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Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient …
Religion and Resistance in Appalachia
Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Inbunden, 2016
1000 kr
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In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has forced local citizens to redefine their identities, their connections to global economic forces, their …
Appalachia Revisited
New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress
Av William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
Häftad, 2017
481 kr
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Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient …
Rereading Appalachia
Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Av Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower
Häftad, 2017
472 kr
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Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them …
Religion and Resistance in Appalachia
Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has forced local citizens to redefine their identities, their connections to global economic forces, their …
Sacred Mountains
A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal
Häftad, 2020
445 kr
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On a misty morning in eastern Kentucky, cross-bearing Christians gather for a service on a surface-mined mountain. They pray for the health and renewal of the land and for their communities, lamenting the corporate greed of the mining companies. On another day, in southern West Virginia, Andrew …
Arthurdale Community School
Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia
Av Sam F Stack
Häftad, 2020
503 kr
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The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. …
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
Av Dwight B Billings, Ann E Kingsolver
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies -- a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around the region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and to combat stereotypes of …
