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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Book Review
Hutton, Bob
http://solidarity-us.org/atc/195/review-appalachia/Date Written: 2018-07-01 Publisher: Against the Current Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23391 Review of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll. Review discusses history of Appalachia as well as previous literature on the subject. Abstract: -- Excerpt: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia By Steven Stoll New York: Hill & Wang, 2017, 432 pages, $17 paperback RAMP HOLLOW IS largely a synthetic history, and author Steven Stoll's findings will be familiar to those who have read, as he has, Ronald Eller, Ronald Lewis, Altina Waller, and other scholars who began the first critical historical conversation in the 1970s and 1980s. This is the most ambitious history of Appalachia since John Alexander Williams' Appalachia: A History (2002). Subject Headings |