Author: William Lynwood MontellPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035319
Category : Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Upper Cumberland Country
Author: William Lynwood MontellPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035319
Category : Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland
Author: Michael BirdwellPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813123097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars uncover fascinating stories and personalities from the Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, but seen here as having a far richer history and culture than previously thought.
Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland
Author: William Lynwood MontellPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Essays by various authors detailing the richness of music that has emanated from Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky since the 1700's.
Don't Go Up Kettle Creek
Author: William Lynwood MontellPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572330849
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Don't Go Up Kettle Creek is a historical portrayal of a river and the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries. Drawing upon the personal recollections and oral traditions of longtime residents, William Lynwood Montell describes a century and a half of life in the Upper Cumberland. Montell organized his material according to the topics that dominated his tape-recorded conversations with residents of the area-farming, logging and rafting, steamboating, the Civil War-topics that the people themselves saw as important in their history. In reconstructing the past, the author also illuminates the relationship between geographic and economic factors in the region; the prolonged affects of a cataclysmic event, the Civil War, on the isolated area; and the impact of modernization, in the form of "hard" roads and cheap, TVA-supplied electricity, on the traditional ways of people. First published in 1983, this book is now available in paperback for the first time. Included with this edition is a new foreword in which Montell and Mary Robbins, executive director of the Tennessee Upper Cumberland Tourism Association, describe changes in the area that have occured since the book's initial appearance. The Author: William Lynwood Montell, now retired, was coordinator of programs in folk and interculturual studies at Western Kentucky University. His numerous books include Ghosts along the Cumberland and The Saga of Coe Ridge.
Tourist and Recreation Potential: Upper Cumberland Lakes Area of Tennessee. A Reconnaissance Report of the Tourism-recreation Potentials of the Upper Cumberland Lakes Area of Tennessee (Clay, De Kalb, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Smith and Warren Counties), with Special Emphasis on Identifying Specific Tourism-recreation Development Opportunities Within the Study Area
Author: United States. Bureau of Outdoor RecreationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Tennesseans and Their History
Author: Paul H. BergeronPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572330566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"The authors introduce readers to famous personalities such as Andrew Jackson and Austin Peay, but they also tell stories of ordinary people and their lives to show how they are an integral part of the state's history. Sidebars throughout the book highlight events and people of particular interest, and reading lists at the end of chapters provide readers with avenues for further exploration."--BOOK JACKET.
Country People in the New South
Author: Jeanette KeithPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men controlled their families' labor and opposed economic risk taking; farm women married young, had large families, and produced much of the family's sustenance. But the arrival of the railroad in 1890 transformed the local economy. Farmers battled town dwellers for control of community institutions, while Progressives called for cultural, political, and economic modernization. Keith demonstrates how these conflicts affected the region's mobilization for World War I, and she argues that by the 1920s shifting gender roles and employment patterns threatened traditionalists' cultural hegemony. According to Keith, religion played a major role in the adjustment to modernity, and local people united to support the 'Monkey Law' as a way of confirming their traditional religious values.
Water-powered Mills of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978564551
Category : Cumberland County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Prince of Tennessee
Author: David MaranissPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743204115
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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The Social Origins of the Urban South
Author: Louis M. KyriakoudesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807861707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about significant economic, social, and cultural changes in both urban centers and the countryside. Focusing on Nashville and its Middle Tennessee hinterland, Louis Kyriakoudes explores the impetus for this migration and illuminates its effects on regional development. Kyriakoudes argues that increased rural-to-urban migration in the late nineteenth century grew out of older seasonal and circular migration patterns long employed by southern farm families. These mobility patterns grew more urban-oriented and more permanent as rural blacks and whites turned increasingly to urban migration in order to cope with rapid economic and social change. The urban economy was particularly welcoming to women, offering freedom from the male authority that dominated rural life. African Americans did not find the same freedoms, however, as whites found ways to harness the forces of modernization to deny them access to economic and social opportunity. By linking urbanization, economic and social change, and popular cultural institutions, Kyriakoudes lends insight into the development of an urban, white, working-class identity that reinforced racial divisions and laid the demographic and social foundations for today's modern, urban South.