Beyond the Mountains: Commodifying Appalachian Environments

by Drew Swanson and Drew A. Swanson

Book Overview

Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820353965
• ISBN13: 9780820353968
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"