From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities

by Phillip J. Obermiller, Kathryn M. Borman, Phillip Obermiller

This volume focuses on Appalachians as a case study of internal migration in developed countries. Since World War II, Appalachian miners have left the coal towns of their mountain region for the car towns of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Migrations have ebbed and flowed with economic expansion and recession. Some descendants who are several generations removed from the migration experience do not identify with their mountainous background,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897893670
• ISBN13: 9780897893671
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"