Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920Univ of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 348 Seiten 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 l |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
The Virgin Forest and the Backcounty Economy | 15 |
The Touch of Capital Railroads Timber and Economic Development of the Backcounties | 45 |
Land Capital and Timber Operations at the Periphery | 81 |
Making Capital Secure Law and the Industrial Transformation of West Virginia | 103 |
Workers in the Woods | 131 |
Ethnicity Exploitation and Social Conflict | 165 |
Connecting the Periphery Commercialization of the Countryside | 185 |
New Men versus Old Men Political Economy and the County Seat Wars | 211 |
The Market Revolution and the Decline of Agriculture | 235 |
If Trees Could Cuss Environmental Destruction and the Beginnings of Restoration | 263 |
Notes | 293 |
Bibliography | 317 |
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