These might interest you. Don't get too bogged down in the Colonial and
Antebellum periods, though.


Head, John. We were the land's: the biography of a homeplace. Atlanta, Ga.:
Longstreet (2000).

Wallace, Anthony F. C. St. Clair, a nineteenth-century coal town's
experience with a disaster-prone industry. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University
Press (1988).

Williams, Michael Ann. Homeplace: the social use and meaning of the folk
dwelling in southwestern North Carolina. Athens : University of Georgia
Press (1991).

Waller, Altina L. Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and social change in Appalachia,
1860-1900. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press (1988).

St. George, Robert Blair. Conversing by signs: poetics of implication in
colonial New England culture (1998).

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