Proving Ground - Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the Appalachian Mountains, and a historical geography of spaces and places in the twentieth century.

About the author

Edward Slavishak is an associate professor of history at Susquehanna University. He is the author of Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh.

Summary

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the Appalachian Mountains, and a historical geography of spaces and places in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Slavishak, Edward (Associate Professor of History Slavishak, Edward Steven Slavishak
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781421425399
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2539-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Appalachian Mountains, History of the Americas, The Earth: natural history: general interest