Transforming the Appalachian countryside :railroads, deforestation, and social change in West Virginia, 1880-1920
- 作者: Lewis, Ronald L.,
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©1998.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xv, 348 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Development -- Economic Development. , Environmental conditions. , Ecology. , West Virginia. , Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling. , Industrialization West Virginia. , Government & Business. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Structural Adjustment. , West Virginia Economic conditions. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Government & Business. , West Virginia , DevelopmentGeneral. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS , Spoorwegen. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Development -- General. , Social conditions. , Industrialization , DevelopmentBusiness Development. , Public PolicyEconomic Policy. , POLITICAL SCIENCE , Electronic books. , DevelopmentEconomic Development. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Development -- Business Development. , POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy -- Economic Policy. , West Virginia Social conditions. , Industrialization. , Economic conditions. , West Virginia Environmental conditions. , Economic history. , Houtindustrie. , Social conditions , Kappen (bomen) , Structural Adjustment.
- ISBN: 0807862975 , 9780807862971
- ISBN: 0807824054 , 0807847062 , 9780807824054 , 9780807847060
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-337) and index. The virgin forest and the backcounty economy -- The touch of capital: railroads, timber, and economic development of the backcounties -- Land, capital, and timber operations at the periphery -- Making capital secure: law and the industrial transformation of West Virginia -- Workers in the woods -- Ethnicity, exploitation, and social conflict -- Connecting the periphery: commercialization of the countryside -- "New men" versus "old men": political economy and the country seat wars -- The market revolution and the decline of agriculture -- If trees could cuss: environmental destruction and the beginnings of restoration.
- 摘要: 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.
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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.
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