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As a region previously categorized by scholars as backward or undeveloped, southwestern Virginia undergoes quite a journey in Hall's skillful and painstakingly researched narrative...his convincing argument that we need to reassess the mountain South's traditional role as a preindustrial or precapitalist region makes his book a valuable addition to the literature and a must-read for scholars of economic development and the U.S. South. -- Sean Patrick Adams, The Journal of Southern History

<p> Mountains on the Market is an important step forward in the rewriting of southern economic and social history in a way that effectively ties all dimensions of the evolving capitalist system to the larger international and global processes. Hall's book demonstrates an originality that firmly situates it at the cutting edge of historical writing on the U.S. South. -- Susanna Delfino, coeditor of Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South --

Mountains on the Market is an important step forward in the rewriting of southern economic and social history in a way that effectively ties all dimensions of the evolving capitalist system to the larger international and global processes. Hall's book demonstrates an originality that firmly situates it at the cutting edge of historical writing on the U.S. South. -- Susanna Delfino, coeditor of Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South --

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Randal L. Hall is managing editor of the Journal of Southern History and adjunct associate professor of history at Rice University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio and William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South. He is also the co-editor of Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours and Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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