Appalachia

Appalachia er en region og et kulturområde i det østlige USA som strekker seg fra den sørlige delen av delstaten New York til det nordlige Alabama, Mississippi og Georgia. Appalachene selv, fjellkjeden som regionen er oppkalt etter, strekker seg fra Newfoundland i Canada til Cheaha Mountain i Alabama, men Appalachia – kulturregionen – er i og tildels i flatlandet nordvest for den sentrale og sørlige delen av den langstrakte fjellkjeden. Det bor rundt 23 millioner mennesker der.

Appalachia ble anerkjent som en egen region på slutten av 1800-tallet. Siden den gang har det oppstått flere myter og forvrengninger om Appalachia og dens innbyggere. Sensasjonalistisk journalistikk på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet fokuserte hovedsakelig på slående og eksepsjonelle regionale fenomener som heimebrent og familiefeider. I populære medier blir innbyggerne i Appalachia ofte stereotypert som dårlig utdannede og impulsivt voldelige. Regionen slet med fattigdom og økonomisk deprivasjon i lang tid.

• Abramson, Rudy (2006). «Introduction». I Abramson, Rudy & Haskell, Jean. Encyclopedia of Appalachia (engelsk) (1st utg.). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572334564. CS1-vedlikehold: Flere navn: redaktørliste (link) Note, chapters of this work are individually authored, and as such, it is a work of multiple authors, and there appear to be multiple section editors as well; there appears to be no access to the content of this work generally available online as of July 2024.

• ARC Staff (Juli 2024). «About the Appalachian Region». Washington, DC: Appalachian Regional Commission. Arkivert fra originalen 10. juli 2024. Besøkt 15. juli 2024.  Presents a summary of Appalachian demographic information, with links to further reports and information.^[1]

• ARC Staff (Juni 2024). «Population and Age in Appalachia». Washington, DC: Appalachian Regional Commission. Arkivert fra originalen 28. juni 2024. Besøkt 15. juli 2024.  Presents a summary of Appalachian population and age stratification information, with links to further reports and information.^[2]

• Becker, Jane S. (1998). Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930–1940. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. Mal:Full

• Biggers, Jeff (2006). The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture and Enlightenment to America. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoints/Shoemaker and Hoard. ISBN 1593760310. 

• Caudill, Harry M. (1962). Night Comes to the Cumberlands. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-13212-8. 
• Davis, Donald Edward. Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians, 2000.
• Dawley, Thomas R. Jr. (Mars 1910). «Our Southern Mountaineers: Removal the Remedy for the Evils That Isolation and Poverty Have Brought». The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XIX: 12704–14. 
• Dotter, Earl. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining and the Environment" Southern Spaces,16. juli 2008.
• Drake, Richard B. A History of Appalachia (2001)
• Eller, Ronald D. (2008). Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2523-7. 
• Eller, Ronald D. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 1982.
• Ford, Thomas R. ed. The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey. (1967), includes highly detailed statistics.
• Kephart, Horace (1922). Our Southern Highlanders (New and revised utg.). Macmillan. ISBN 0-87049-203-9.  text online
• Inscoe, John C. Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South (U of North Carolina Press, 2020_ online review
• Lee, Tom, "Southern Appalachia's Nineteenth-Century Bright Tobacco Boom: Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Culture of Tobacco", Agricultural History 88 (Spring 2014), 175–206. online
• Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880–1920 (1998) online edition Arkivert 6. november 2018 hos Wayback Machine.
• Light, Melanie and Ken Light (2006). Coal Hollow. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24654-6

• MW Staff. «Appalachia». Merriam-Webster.com (engelsk). Springfield, MA: Britannica/Merriam-Webster. «[ˌa-pə-ˈlā-chə, -ˈla-chə, -ˈlā-shə]» Mal:Full In addition to the pronunciation, the definition of the title term indicates no definite geographic boundaries associated with the term in its common parlance.^[3]

• Noe, Kenneth W. and Shannon H. Wilson, Civil War in Appalachia (1997)

• Obermiller, Phillip J., Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker, editors (2000). Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-96851-0
• Olson, Ted (1998). Blue Ridge Folklife. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-023-0
• Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller, eds. Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. (1995).
• Sarnoff, Susan; Yoon, Hong-Sik (2003). «Central Appalachia – Still the Other America». Journal of Poverty. The Haworth Press. 7 (1 & 2): 123–39. doi:10.1300/J134v07n01_06. Arkivert fra originalen 22. februar 2007. Besøkt 16. juli 2024. 
• Slap, Andrew L., (ed.) (2010). Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
• Stewart, Bruce E. (ed.) (2012). Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
• Walls, David (1977). "On the Naming of Appalachia" Arkivert mai 28, 2010, hos Wayback Machine An Appalachian Symposium. Edited by J. W. Williamson. Boone, NC: Appalachian State University Press.
• Williams, John Alexander. Appalachia: A History (2002) online edition Arkivert 26. mai 2010 hos Wayback Machine.
• Woodard, Colin American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011)