The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

List of illustrations List of tables Preface and acknowledgments Part I. Public Policy and Historical Sociology: 1. Introduction Part II. Antebellum Capitalist Markets: 2. Fronier Kentucky in the capitalist world system 3. Industry, commerce, and slaveholding Part III. Antebellum State Coercion: 4. State making and the origins of elite conflict Part IV. Cultural Strategies: 5. The patriarchal moral economy of agriculture 6. Racial dynamics and the creation of poverty Part V. Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State: 7. From marginality to integration 8. Feud violence 9. Epilogue Appendix Notes Index.