Ramp Hollow by Steven Stoll - SIGNED

 This is a signed (not inscribed to somebody else) otherwise MINT hardback copy in dust jacket. When I wrote this up, there were NO signed copies available on the internet.          Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll, released on November 21st of this year, is clearly one of the most important books about Appalachia in recent years. It was published by Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan, one of America’s “Big Five” publishers. The author is a formidable scholar who did his undergraduate work at Berkeley and received a master's degree and a doctorate in history from Yale. He has taught throughout his career at Fordham. This is his fifth book from a major publisher.     In a nutshell, he takes Harriette Arnow’s thesis that 19th Century Appalachia was a land of relatively equal yeoman farmers and Wilma Dunaway’s antithesis that Appalachia has always been integrated into American capitalism and establishes a synthesis around his concept of a makeshift e