This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of morethan 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter. INDICE: Introduction: Harlan County, 1964-2007: A love story; 1.: The Bear and the Sycamore Tree; 2.: Of Hardship and Love; 3.: Wars and Peace; 4.: These Signs Shall Follow Them; 5.: Flush Times and Rough Times; 6.: A Space of Their Own; 7.: Miner's Life; 8.: Identities; 9.: No Neutrals there; 10.: God, Guns, and Guts; 11.: Harlan on Our Minds; 12.: Exodus; 13.: The Other America;14.: Democracy and the Mines; 15.: Staying Alive; People I Owe; Notes; The Narrators; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-973568-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés