The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the... more

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state s cotton mills; he... more

Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmenta... more

Intended for social scientists, historians, and readers interested in social change and social pover... more

Banks, Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee, Wilma A. Dunaway, John R. Finger, John C. Inscoe, Ronald L. Lewis, Ralph Mann...... more

The first authoritative guide to how the world drinks, this reference details alcohol use in differe... more

Originally printed in 1622, this is the first published account of the coming of the Pilgrims to the... more

Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters, Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver bring together voices from a variety of...... more

: Place Matters, Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver assemble scholars and artists from a variety of disciplines to...... more

dominated by biology, chemistry, physiology, and other "hard sciences." As such, writes Dwight Heath in his new foreword, the...... more

This volume provides a collection of essays which examines the performance of the six financial func... more