Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (New Directions in Southern History)

by RandalL.Hall (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2012

  $86.14

  Charts the economic progress of the New River Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, which became home to a wide variety of industries. Covering 250 years of industrialisation, environmental exploitation, and the effects of globalization, Mountains on the Market situates the New River Valley squarely in the mainstream of American capitalism.