The First American Frontier
Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860
By Wilma A. Dunaway
468 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, 5 figs., 19 maps, 40 tables, appends., bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4540-0
Published: February 1996 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-6117-2
Published: November 2000 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7497-9
Published: November 2000
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Awards & distinctions
1996 W. D. Weatherford Award, Appalachian Center, Berea College
About the Author
Wilma A. Dunaway is assistant professor of sociology at Colorado State University.
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Reviews
"No Appalachian stereotype seems immune from Dunaway's research agenda. . . . This book will serve as a treasury of sources and research questions for many, many years."--West Virginia History
"Excepting the West, no United States region is currently undergoing a more heated reinterpretation than southern Appalachia. This book will add fuel to the fire. Wilma A. Dunaway's revisionism is the brashest so far, but her documentation is the best."--Journal of American History
โThe most provocative and ambitious examination of the region prior to the Civil War yet published. The author challenges virtually every stereotype produced on early Appalachia through the prism of world-systems theory, sophisticated methodological techniques, and prodigious data gathering. One has to admire the sweep of her scholarship and the power of her arguments.โ--Georgia Historical Quarterly
"Essential reading for anyone in the field and offers to others an instructive account of regional economic development."--American Historical Review
"[Dunaway] has provided us with an interpretive framework that challenges many of the old assumptions about the mountain region before 1860. . . . This is a remarkable accomplishment that will only be truly appreciated in the years to come by scholars who wrestle with the questions she raises."--Gordon McKinney, Appalachian Journal
"This work will undoubtedly set the standard for the future studies of the region and should be consulted by any serious student of antebellum Southern Appalachian affairs."--Tennessee Historical Quarterly