Department are very happy to be presenting a talk by steve, professor of history at florida university. The university. He works and teaches on environmental history, history of capitalism, agrarian studies and other topics interest objectsubjects. Hes a writer of other works including the lean earth soil Anand Society in 19th century 1y america, the great delusion, a mad inventor stuck in the tropics into the utopian origins of economic growth. Tonight, hes going to be talking to us about his new book that will be released on november 21, just in time for the holidays, so please mark your calendars. The book is of course the ordeal of appalachia as you can see by the picture of its lovely cover. And i am excited about the talk and thrilled to have him with us at the new school. Theres been a lot of talk obviously about the places left behind, the sort of poor rural communitiecommunity, the white s who voted for trump, you know, and th they sense that the Historical Context of the post