Author: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Historical Genealogy RoomPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Family Fare
Author: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Historical Genealogy RoomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Places from the Past
Author: Clare Lise CavicchiPublisher: Maryland National Capital Park &
ISBN: 9780971560703
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio
Author: Darrel E. BighamPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813131146
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
No other region in America is so fraught with projected meaning as Appalachia. Many people who have never set foot in Appalachia have very definite ideas about what the region is like. Whether these assumptions originate with movies like Deliverance (1972) and Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), from Robert F. Kennedy's widely publicized Appalachian Tour, or from tales of hiking the Appalachian Trail, chances are these suppositions serve a purpose to the person who holds them. A person's concept of Appalachia may function to reassure them that there remains an "authentic" America untouched by consumerism, to feel a sense of superiority about their lives and regions, or to confirm the notion that cultural differences must be both appreciated and managed. In Selling Appalachia: Popular Fictions, Imagined Geographies, and Imperial Projects, 1878-2003, Emily Satterwhite explores the complex relationships readers have with texts that portray Appalachia and how these varying receptions have created diverse visions of Appalachia in the national imagination. She argues that words themselves not inherently responsible for creating or destroying Appalachian stereotypes, but rather that readers and their interpretations assign those functions to them. Her study traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades from the Gilded Age (1865-1895) to the present and includes texts such as John Fox Jr.'s Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriet Arnow's Hunter's Horn (1949), and Silas House's Clay's Quilt (2001), charting both the portrayals of Appalachia in fiction and readers' responses to them. Satterwhite's unique approach doesn't just explain how people view Appalachia, it explains why they think that way. This innovative book will be a noteworthy contribution to Appalachian studies, cultural and literary studies, and reception theory.
Kentucky
Author: Hambleton TappPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780916968052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The most thorough and ambitious study yet made of this significant and turbulent period in Kentucky's history. Over 70 pictures and maps recreate the atmosphere of the times.
History of Whitley County, Indiana
Author: Samuel P. KalerPublisher:
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Category : Whitley County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
1836-1844
Author: Joseph Smith (III)Publisher:
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Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Axtell Genealogy, 1945
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Broome County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
History of Hendricks County, Indiana
Author: John Vestal HadleyPublisher:
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Category : Hendricks County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Seven Months a Prisoner
Author: John Vestal HadleyPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Incidents of the War
Author: Mary Jane ChadickPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Transcribed, edited, and anotated Civil War journal written by Mary Jane Chaduck during the years of Federal invasion, 1862-1865.