Mountain Families in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain Families in Transition write by Harry K. Schwarzweller. This book was released on 1971. Mountain Families in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A result of almost three decades of research, this is a highly readable account of the people and families of an isolated mountain locality in eastern Kentucky as they struggled to adapt to the increasingly dismal economic and social conditions of Appalachia. Focusing with rare insight and compassion upon the families which finally moved from their subsistence-farming localities, this study details how they made the move and how they fared in the large industrial centers to the north. Mountain Families in Transition is a model study of the many ramifications, the intricacies, and the problems involved in the urban relocation of a mountain people long isolated from the mainstream of American society. In many ways this classic in the literature of sociology parallels accounts of the immigrant groups in America at the turn of the century.
Out of the Family
Out of the Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out of the Family write by Darla J. Dye. This book was released on 1987. Out of the Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mountain Landscapes in Transition
Mountain Landscapes in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain Landscapes in Transition write by Udo Schickhoff. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Mountain Landscapes in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned. The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems. The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation. The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.
Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Transforming the Appalachian Countryside - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming the Appalachian Countryside write by Ronald L. Lewis. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, 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.
Mountain People in a Flat Land
Mountain People in a Flat Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain People in a Flat Land write by Carl E. Feather. This book was released on 1998. Mountain People in a Flat Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival. But the cost of a bus ticket was more than a week's wages in a lumber camp, and the mountaineer paid dearly in loss of kin, culture, homeplace, and freedom. Numerous scholarly works have addressed this migration that brought more than one million mountaineers to Ohio alone. But Mountain People in a Flat Land is the first popular history of Appalachian migration to one community -- Ashtabula County, an industrial center in the fabled "best location in the nation." These migrants share their stories of life in Appalachia before coming north. There are tales of making moonshine, colorful family members, home remedies harvested from the wild, and life in coal company towns and lumber camps. The mountaineers explain why, despite the beauty of the mountains and the deep kinship roots, they had to leave Appalachia. Stories of their hardships, cultural clashes, assimilation, and ultimate successes in the flatland provide a moving look at an often stereotyped people.
