Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes by Hsiung, David C.

Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813156187)

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Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes by Hsiung, David C.

Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes

$25.00
Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes by Hsiung, David C.

Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must look critically at their underlying concepts, especially those of isolation and community. Hsiung focuses on the mountainous area of upper East Tennessee, tracing this area's development from the first settlementin the eighteenth century to the

Author: David C. Hsiung
ISBN-10: 0813156181
ISBN-13: 9780813156187
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
By David C. Hsiung
By David C. Hsiung
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David C. Hsiung is associate professor of history at Juniata College.

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