THE INCORPORATION OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA INTO
THE CAPITALIST WORLD-ECONOMY, 1700-1860
A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
by Wilma A. Dunaway
May 1994
Copyright 1994 All rights reserved
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL DISSERTATION AWARD, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 1995
WHY AM I POSTING IT PUBLICLY? My dissertation includes many sections and discussions that have never been published elsewhere, and it is difficult to access a copy. I want to make it easily available to graduate students and other researchers who are studying Appalachia, another USA subregion, or a peripheral area somewhere else in the world. The research questions, methods and theoretical concepts that I employ are adaptable to almost any context. For those studying Appalachia, my lengthy Bibliography will direct you toward many primary sources that you would not likely find.
NOTE: With significant cuts, this dissertation was published as The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
FIGURES & TABLES. Figures are included in their appropriate chapters at the appropriate page number. Because of the hours involved in reformatting 113 statistical pages, I have not provided Tables. Please email me if you would like to see a specific table, and I will forward a copy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 1 The Emergence of Rural Capitalism on an American Frontier: Toward a Paradigm Shift
Chapter 4 "The Poor Man Had No Chanc": Southern Appalachia's Landless Agrarian Semiproletariat
Chapter 6 Antebellum Manufacturing in Southern Appalachia
Chapter 7 "Diggers of the Country": Southern Appalachia's Antebellum Extractive Industries
Chapter 8 Local Commerce and Home Markets in Antebellum Southern Appalachia
Chapter 9 Appalachian Production for External Markets
Chapter 10 The Spatial Organization of External Trade: Unthinking the Myth of Appalachian Isolation
Chapter 11 The Pervasive Reach of Global Commodity Chains
Chapter 12 The Deepening Polarization and Peripheralization of Southern Appalachia, 1840-1860
Appendix A. Appalachia as an Underdeveloped Region: A Review and Critique of the Literature Prior to 1990
Appendix B Essay on Methodology and Sources