Ramp Hollow: the ordeal of Appalachia

Contemporary ancestors: from Daniel Boone to Hill-Billy

Provision grounds: on capitalism and the Atlantic peasantry

The Rye Rebellion: why Alexander Hamilton invaded the mountains

Mountaineers are always free: on losing land and livelihood

Interlude: Agrarian twilight: the art of dispossession

The captured garden: subsistence under industrial capitalism

Negotiated settlements: the fate of the commons and the commoners.