Robert S Weise
Biographic Data
| ID | 5881234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Weise |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Weise |
| SIGNATURE | WEISE R S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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
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…
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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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
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…
Appalachia (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Debt (2 works)