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Author : Byrd Douglas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Steamboatin' on the Cumberland written by Byrd Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563112353
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Russell Co, KY - Hist & Families written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870493157
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Saga of Coe Ridge written by William Lynwood Montell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1981-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few black groups in the United States carry with them the romance, the gripping history, the pathos, the indestructible spirit of the Coe Ridge colony during the ninety years of its existence. ". . . a new and long needed departure in American historiography. . . . This is in every way an impressive book. It contains detailed accounts of the informants, tables of folklore motifs, genealogical charts, a prologue and epilogue explaining authoritatively the hypotheses of oral traditional history, and handsome photographs of the Coe Ridge area." --Richard M. Dorson, Journal of American History. "Lynwood Montell has written an invaluable book for all those interested in the use of oral tradition as a tool in the reconstruction of history. . . . This is a book worthy of being on any folklorist's shelf." --Richaed A. Reuss, Journal of American Folklore.
Author : Robert H. Gudmestad
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807138428
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom written by Robert H. Gudmestad and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
Author : Herbert Quick
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Mississippi Steamboatin' written by Herbert Quick and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harriette Simpson Arnow
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813188598
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Old Burnside written by Harriette Simpson Arnow and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of this century, Burnside, Kentucky, was a bustling community perched on and above the floodplain formed by the Cumberland River and the South Fork. It was a center for shipping by rail and steamboat packet, and its lumber mills sent their products all over the world. The lower part of the town—once the heart of its economic being—now lies beneath the waters of Lake Cumberland, and the remaining streets above no longer resound with the clatter and roar of older and busier times. Harriet Simpson Arnow moved to Burnside with her parents and sisters in 1913, a few months before her fifth birthday. She recreates for us the sights and sounds of the town as she sets her childhood memories against the history of the region from the days of early settlers until Wolfe Creek Dam was built, creating the hundred-mile-long Lake Cumberland. Arnow charms the reader with her account of what it was like to be child in such a place and time, describing the fascination of the general stores of the town, the grand sight of the Seven Gables Hotel, the excitement of school, and the ever-interesting river and railroad traffic, all of which lent diversion to a life that sometimes seemed overburdened with household chores and errand running. Though much of old Burnside has disappeared, the way of life Arnow describes is an important part of the fabric of the history of Kentucky and the nation. Evoking vivid scenes of river and railroad, lumber mill and country store, Arnow recreates for us with great artistry a long-vanished place and time.
Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672202
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book After Vicksburg written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first published comprehensive survey of naval action on the Mississippi River and its tributaries for the years 1863-1865. Following introductory reviews of the rivers and of the U.S. Navy's Mississippi Squadron, chronological Federal naval participation in various raids and larger campaigns is highlighted, as well as counterinsurgency, economical support and control, and logistical protection. The book includes details on units, locations and activities that have been previously underreported or ignored. Examples include the birth and function of the Mississippi Squadron's 11th District, the role of U.S. Army gunboats, and the war on the Upper Cumberland and Upper Tennessee Rivers. The last chapter details the coming of the peace in 1865 and the decommissioning of the U.S. river navy and the sale of its gunboats.
Author : Louis M. Kyriakoudes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807861707
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Social Origins of the Urban South written by Louis M. Kyriakoudes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861170
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The First American Frontier written by Wilma A. Dunaway and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Steamboat Bill written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kentucky Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society written by Kentucky Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald L. Winters
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498602
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Tennessee Farming, Tennessee Farmers written by Donald L. Winters and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular exploration of the fundamental structure of the universe. Another example of Bernstein's lucid and lively writing for the layman. Winters (history, Vanderbilt U.) chronicles the agricultural history of Tennessee during the antebellum period, exploring ways in which farmers created a complex agricultural system that provided goods for household consumption and for sale in markets off the farm. He details the commercial network, agricultural slavery, and farming innovations in this state that occupied a transitional position between the staple agriculture of the South and the grain-livestock agriculture of the North. Contains bandw maps and tables. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451955
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Timberclads in the Civil War written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga. Converted to warships from commercial steamboats at the beginning of the conflict, the three formed the core of the North's Western Flotilla, later the Mississippi Squadron. The book focuses on the activities of these wooden warriors while providing context for the greater war, including accounts of their famous commanders, their roles in both large and small battles, ship-to-ship combat, and support for the armies of Gen. U.S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman.
Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686890
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Old War Horse written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a unique prewar history as a snagboat and James B. Eads' noted catamaran salvage vessel, the Benton survived a tumultuous government acquisition process and conversion to become flagship of the Union's Civil War Western river navy. From Island No. 10 through the Vicksburg and Red River campaigns, the revolutionary ironclad participated in both combat and administrative activities, earning a prominent place in nautical legend and literature. This first book-length profile of the warship reveals little known details of both her prewar and wartime career and reviews her final disposal.
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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Tennessee Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332652
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland written by Benjamin Franklin Cooling and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Littleton Davis
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455604661
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Frontier Tales of Tennessee written by Louise Littleton Davis and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Littleton Davis offers a collection of detailed, poignant accounts of the people and events that shaped the early history of Tennessee. In Frontier Tales of Tennessee, she traces the personal tragedies and triumphs that shaped the destinies of people struggling to build a young nation and that influenced the course of history itself. A "behind the historical scenes" perspective includes such notable figures as Sam Houston, Aaron Burr, and "Black Horse Harry" Lee.
