Robert Weise
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Weise |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Weise |
| SIGNATURE | WEISE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath
This collection of articles addresses the role that mountain regions of southern states (and one northern state) played in the post–Civil War political and economic realignments known as Reconstruction. The volume's two introductions make clear the importance of the postwar period for the region: violence and dislocation, especially in the form of guerrilla war, cracked the mountains’ social structures and opened then to a bevy of new political, …
Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South since 1920
Progress from Poverty: Education and Self-improvement in Rural Regions Sears, Roebuck Catalog Games: Shop Window and Southern Literature Erskine Caldwell Anticipates the New South The War on the Home Front: James Agee and the Making of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Progress through Rayon: The Nederlandse Kunstzijdefabriek in Hominy Valley, 1928-1940 Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration The Never-ending Cycle of Poverty: Sarah E…
Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia
Book Review| January 01 2006 To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia. Chad Montrie. Robert Weise Robert Weise Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.118 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site …
Tales from the Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia
Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915
Appalachia s economic transformation from farms to coalfields has been previously analyzed from divergent viewpoints. Robert Weise now offers a new understanding of preindustrial Appalachia and its transition to industrial capitalism, reconstructing the social and economic behavior of local residents to show how the circumstances that defined the region s household economy also predisposed it to exploitation. Examining economic marginalization, h…
A History of Appalachia
Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915
Appalachia has inspired another first-rate rural case study, and it is enlivened by bold theorizing on a high wire above a small net, as has become de rigueur from that region. (The field of Appalachian studies grew out of 1960s activism, and it retains a flair for 1960s-style rhetoric.) First and foremost, Robert S. Weise shows that the “transition to capitalism” in Floyd County, Kentucky, occurred through efforts made by small landowners to per…
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A History of Appalachia
Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915
Appalachia has inspired another first-rate rural case study, and it is enlivened by bold theorizing on a high wire above a small net, as has become de rigueur from that region. (The field of Appalachian studies grew out of 1960s activism, and it retains a flair for 1960s-style rhetoric.) First and foremost, Robert S. Weise shows that the “transition to capitalism” in Floyd County, Kentucky, occurred through efforts made by small landowners to per…
Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915
Appalachia s economic transformation from farms to coalfields has been previously analyzed from divergent viewpoints. Robert Weise now offers a new understanding of preindustrial Appalachia and its transition to industrial capitalism, reconstructing the social and economic behavior of local residents to show how the circumstances that defined the region s household economy also predisposed it to exploitation. Examining economic marginalization, h…
Tales from the Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia
Book Review| January 01 2006 To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Mining in Appalachia. Chad Montrie. Robert Weise Robert Weise Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.118 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site …
Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia
Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South since 1920
Progress from Poverty: Education and Self-improvement in Rural Regions Sears, Roebuck Catalog Games: Shop Window and Southern Literature Erskine Caldwell Anticipates the New South The War on the Home Front: James Agee and the Making of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Progress through Rayon: The Nederlandse Kunstzijdefabriek in Hominy Valley, 1928-1940 Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration The Never-ending Cycle of Poverty: Sarah E…
Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath
This collection of articles addresses the role that mountain regions of southern states (and one northern state) played in the post–Civil War political and economic realignments known as Reconstruction. The volume's two introductions make clear the importance of the postwar period for the region: violence and dislocation, especially in the form of guerrilla war, cracked the mountains’ social structures and opened then to a bevy of new political, …
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