Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks

by J Blake Perkins

Book Overview

J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He uncovers the reasons local disputes and uneven access to government power fostered markedly different reactions by hill people as time went by. Resistance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252082893
• ISBN13: 9780252082894
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"