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Title: Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia by Jack E. Weller ISBN: 0-8131-0109-3 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: 01 March, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Principles That Persist Over Time
Comment: The principles presented in this book are not dated. They only seem dated because they have been passing through generations for so long. Generational poverty has been a part of Appalachian culture for centuries and it continues to be an enormous challenge. There are those who press through the oppression and dream but the majority of Appalachia is summed up beautifully in this author's presentation.
I have lived and worked my entire life in the area studied by the author. I can confirm his findings to be true and insightful. This book will inform the reader about a complex problem that is sure to span the ages.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Dated Book Full of Sterotypes
Comment: As a college student from Appalachia writing about my area, I found a suprising lack of contemporary research and writing on Appalachia, even in my Ivy League college's library. Yesterday's People, although written in 1980, uses books from the late 1800s and early 1900s for some of its sources. Comments include things like, "raised in a society of so much 'known', there is little stimulation--there is no desire or skill for meeting the new and different." and "Childhood seems to be only a waiting period until adulthood is attained, adolescence is in many ways the high point of life." While some of the sterotypes Weller speaks of in this book are generally true, I feel that there are too many misinformed opinions for this book to be of much worth. It is dangerous for this book to be an "outsider's" only source of knowledge on the beautiful and rich culture of Appalachia.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Insight into the Appalachian culture
Comment: Weller's book does an excellent job of portraying the subtleties, and sometimes things not so subtle, of the culture of West Virginia and of a large part of the rest of southern Appalachia. West Virginia is the only state almost entirely lying within Appalachia so it is a good representation of the region. All the other states in the region are no more than about one-third in Appalachia. The anecdotes about reactions to events ring true and are very revealing. As a native West Virginian I got new insights into the culture from which I came.
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Title: Appalachia: A History by John Alexander Williams ISBN: 0807853682 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O'Brien ISBN: 0385721390 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Mist over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People by Raymond Bial ISBN: 0395735696 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area by Harry M. Caudill ISBN: 1931672008 Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Road to Poverty : The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia by Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee, Kathleen Blee ISBN: 0521655463 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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