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Article: Encyclopedia of Appalachia.(Book review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Edited by Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 1832. $79.95, ISBN 1-57233-456-8.) This extremely useful reference book has been ten years in the making: planning for it began at the 1995 annual meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association. The editors acknowledge that their work was inspired in part by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris, eds., Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill, 1989); and, appropriately, Ferris provides a foreword to the Encyclopedia (Appalachia. The new volume more than lives up to the high standards set by its predecessor. Following a brief ...