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Appalachian Aspirations

Author : John E. Benhart
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572335622
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Aspirations written by John E. Benhart and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1865, two Union officers stationed in East Tennessee during the Civil War - Hiram Chamberlain and John Wilder -- decided to stay in the South to pursue business careers. They recognized potential in the "untapped" resources they had seen during military operations in this part of the state. Within the space of four years, Chamberlain and Wilder had recruited business partners, built an operating iron furnace in the Upper Tennessee River Valley (the Roane Iron Company), and established a company town at Rockwood, Tennessee. Twenty years later, in some parts of Appalachia, new planned towns were being established by land companies that wanted to develop model industrial real estate ventures. In the Upper Tennessee River Valley, these new towns - Cardiff, Harriman, and Lenoir City, Tennessee - were planned to be the quintessential places for industrial production and urban living as they were characterized by urban/sanitary reform ideals, temperance tenets, and distinctive urban landscapes. In Appalachian Aspirations, John Benhart presents the story of the evolution of capitalism and regional development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Drug Abuse Patterns Among Young Polydrug Users and Urban Appalachian Youths

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Drug Abuse Patterns Among Young Polydrug Users and Urban Appalachian Youths written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Goals, Objectives and Development Strategies for Appalachia: Report

Author : Appalachian Regional Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goals, Objectives and Development Strategies for Appalachia: Report written by Appalachian Regional Commission and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Report to Congress on the Continuation of the Appalachian Regional Commission

Author : Appalachian Regional Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Report to Congress on the Continuation of the Appalachian Regional Commission written by Appalachian Regional Commission and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

Author : John R. Burch, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606943
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty written by John R. Burch, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessential example of rural poverty in Appalachia. This study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County's ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county's lack of natural resources, a poor transportation system, and a centralized socio-political power structure controlled by the entrenched elite. The author asserts that Owsley County's economic hardships are far from unique, but rather are representative of a significant number of Appalachian counties and towns. Several tables and appendices provide useful demographic, legislative, and agricultural data.

Forging a New South

Author : Maury Nicely
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621908011
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Forging a New South written by Maury Nicely and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of August 21, 1861, John T. Wilder, a brash young colonel of a Union mounted infantry unit nicknamed the “Lightning Brigade” ordered his men to open fire on the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, damaging buildings, sinking steamboats along the riverfront, and injuring men, women, and children. In the midst of Reconstruction and an emerging new South a mere eight years later, Wilder was elected mayor of Chattanooga. While Wilder is most closely associated with the Lightning Brigade, which helped to pioneer the use of both mounted infantry and repeating firearms during the American Civil War, his military accomplishments occupied only five years of his eighty-seven year life. His immense postwar success, however, left a permanent mark on the industrial development of the war-torn South in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is the comprehensive picture of Wilder’s nearly nine decades that Maury Nicely seeks to capture in Forging a New South: The Life of General John T. Wilder. “For many war heroes, there was not much beyond the war worth telling,” Nicely writes. “Such was not the case with Wilder.” A successful entrepreneur and industrialist, after the war Wilder relocated to East Tennessee, where he created dozens of businesses, factories, mines, hotels, and towns; was elected mayor of the city he had shelled during the war; and cultivated close personal and business relationships with Federal and Confederate veterans alike, helping to create a new South in the wake of a devastating conflict. Presented in two parts and accompanied by more than sixty detailed photographs and maps, Nicely’s balanced study fills a significant void—the first complete biography of General John T. Wilder.

Annual Report of the Appalachian Regional Commission

Author : Appalachian Regional Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Appalachian Regional Commission written by Appalachian Regional Commission and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Occupational and Educational Goals of Rural Appalachian Children and Their Mothers

Author : Judith Lee Kuipers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Occupational and Educational Goals of Rural Appalachian Children and Their Mothers written by Judith Lee Kuipers and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity

Author : Todd Snyder
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786478020
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity written by Todd Snyder and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work the various ways that social, economic, and cultural factors influence the identities and educational aspirations of rural working-class Appalachian learners are explored. The objectives are to highlight the cultural obstacles that impact the intellectual development of such students and to address how these cultural roadblocks make transitioning into college difficult. Throughout the book, the author draws upon his personal experiences as a first-generation college student from a small coalmining town in rural West Virginia. Both scholarly and personal, the book blends critical theory, ethnographic research, and personal narrative to demonstrate how family work histories and community expectations both shape and limit the academic goals of potential Appalachian college students.

Appalachia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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The Southern Appalachian Region

Author : Thomas R. Ford
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813165172
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Appalachian Region written by Thomas R. Ford and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American "problem area" -- an area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in the past decade the resistance of such areas to economic advance has acquired a more urgent significance in American thought. In 1958, a group of scholars undertook to make a new survey of the Southern Appalachian Region. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation ultimately amounting to $250,000, they set out to analyze the direction and extent of the changes which had taken place since the last survey (in1935), to define the problem in terms of the present situation, and -- if possible -- to arrive at recommendations for action which might enable the leaders of the Region and the nation to attack the problem with practical measures. In this volume are presented their comprehensive reports on the Region's population, its economy, its institutions, and its culture. The problems defined by this survey are a challenge to the whole nation, for the consequences of success or failure in solving them will not be limited to the Southern Appalachian Region.

Development of Water Resources in Appalachia

Author : United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development of Water Resources in Appalachia written by United States. Office of Appalachian Studies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Appalachia

Author : Appalachian Regional Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appalachia written by Appalachian Regional Commission and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conditions Calling for Educational Reform

Author : Edwin L. Herr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Conditions Calling for Educational Reform written by Edwin L. Herr and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. Hearings ... 89-1 ... January 19 and 21, 1965

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. Hearings ... 89-1 ... January 19 and 21, 1965 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agee at 100

Author : Michael A. Lofaro
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572338903
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Agee at 100 written by Michael A. Lofaro and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn mainly from the centennial anniversary symposium on James Agee held at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2009, the essays of Agee at 100 are as diverse in topic and purpose as is Agee’s work itself. Often devalued during his life by those who thought his breadth a hindrance to greatness, Agee’s achievements as a poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, critic, documentarian, and screenwriter are now more fully recognized. With its use of previously unknown and recently recovered materials as well as established works, this groundbreaking new collection is a timely contribution to the resurgence of interest in Agee’s significance. The essays in this collection range from the scholarly to the personal, and all offer insight into Agee’s writing, his cultural influence, and ultimately Agee himself. Dwight Garner opens with his reflective essay on “Why Agee Matters.” Several essays present almost entirely new material on Agee. Paul Ashdown writes on Agee’s book reviews, which, unlike Agee’s film criticism, have received scant attention. With evidence from two largely unstudied manuscripts, Jeffrey Couchman sets the record straight on Agee’s contribution to the screenplay for The African Queen and delves as well into his television “miniseries” screenplay Mr. Lincoln. John Wranovics treats Agee’s lesser-known films--the documentaries In the Street and The Quiet One and the Filipino epic Genghis Khan. Jeffrey J. Folks wrestles with Agee’s “culture of repudiation” while James A. Crank investigates his perplexing treatment of race in his prose. Jesse Graves and Andrew Crooke provide new analyses of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Michael A. Lofaro and Philip Stogdon both discuss Lofaro’s recently restored text of A Death in the Family. David Madden closes the collection with his short story “Seeing Agee in Lincoln,” an imagined letter from Agee to his longtime confidante Father Flye. The contributors to Agee at 100 utilize materials new and old to reveal the true importance of Agee's range of cultural sensibility and literary ability. Film scholars will also find this collection particularly engrossing, as will anyone fascinated by the work of the author rightly deemed the “sovereign prince of the English language.” Michael A. Lofaro is Lindsay Young Professor of American Literature and American and Cultural Studies at the University of Tennessee. Most recently, he restored James Agee’s A Death in the Family and is the general editor of the projected eleven-volume The Works of James Agee.