The debate over the source of Appalachia's economic problems has
been going strong since Harry Caudill's Night Comes to the
Cumberlands appeared in 1963. Now a new study illuminates the
region's plight, making a vital contribution to the understanding
of this area's critical economic dilemma.
In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the
evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia. Moving
away from the colonial model to an analysis based on dependency, he
exposes the complex web of factors -- regulation of credit,
industrialization, population growth, cultural values, federal
intervention -- that has worked against the region.
Salstrom argues that economic adversity has resulted from three
types of disadvantages: natural, market, and political. The overall
context in which Appalachia's economic life unfolded was one of
expanding United States markets and, after the Civil War, of
expanding capitalist relations.
Covering Appalachia's economic history from early white
settlement to the end of the New Deal, this work is not simply an
economic interpretation but draws as well on other areas of
history. Salstrom compares Appalachia with the Midwest at
mid-nineteenth century, today's Appalachia with Third World
countries, and the region with Japan.
Whereas other interpretations of Appalachia's economy have
tended to seek social or psychological explanations for its
dependency, this important work compels us to look directly at the
region's economic history. This regional perspective offers a
clear-eyed view of Appalachia's path in the future.
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