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Appalachia has enjoyed a complex and frequently contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following a Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of improvement. Early on 20th-century critics of modernity found the region as a remnant of frontier life, a representation of simpler times that should be preserved and shielded. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material creation, consumption, and technology decried what they perceived as the isolation and backwardness of the area and sought to "uplift" the hill people through education and industrialization. Ronald D Eller has worked with local market leaders, condition policymakers, and countrywide planners to convert the lessons of private industrial-development history into public policy affecting the region. In Uneven Earth: Appalachia Since 1945, Eller examines the politics of development in Appalachia since World Battle II with an eyeball toward exploring the idea of progress as they have progressed in modern America. Appalachia's struggle to get over poverty, to reside in tranquility with the land, and respect the diversity of cultures and the value of community is also an American history. In the long run, Eller concludes, "Appalachia was not different from the rest of America; it was in fact a mirror of what the country was becoming." The booklet is posted by University Press of Kentucky.
