The First American Frontier

Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860

• Author(s): Wilma A. Dunaway,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 448
• ISBN_10: 0807822361
  ISBN_13: 9780807822364
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / General ,

Description:... Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the