Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes

by Edward Slavishak

Book Overview

Disrupting the intervenor narrative in Appalachian studies.

The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of what they would encounter. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however, networks of missionaries, sociologists, folklorists, doctors, artists, and conservationists made Appalachia their primary site for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421425394
• ISBN13: 9781421425399
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher