Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community
Autor Durwood Dunnen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 1988
Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award
Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, Durwood Dunn sketches the early pioneers, their daily lives, their beliefs, and their struggles to survive and prosper in this isolated mountain community, now within the confines of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In moving detail this book brings to life an isolated mountain community, its struggle to survive, and the tragedy of its demise.
Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, Durwood Dunn sketches the early pioneers, their daily lives, their beliefs, and their struggles to survive and prosper in this isolated mountain community, now within the confines of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In moving detail this book brings to life an isolated mountain community, its struggle to survive, and the tragedy of its demise.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780870495595
ISBN-10: 0870495593
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First edition
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN-10: 0870495593
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First edition
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
Notă biografică
Durwood Dunn was a professor history and the longtime Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens. He received his PhD from the University of Tennessee and was a proponent of Tennessee and Appalachian history.
Recenzii
"Professor Dunn provides us with a model historical investigation of a southern mountain community. His findings on commercial farming, family, religion, and politics will challenge many standard interpretations of the Appalachian past."
--Gordon B. McKinney, Western Carolina University.
"This is a fine book. . . . It is mostly about community and interrelationships, and thus it refutes much of the literature that presents Southern Mountaineers as individualistic, irreligious, violent, and unlawful."
—Loyal Jones, Appalachian Heritage.
"Dunn . . . has written one of the best books ever produced about the Southern mountains."
—Virginia Quarterly Review.
"This study offers the first detailed analysis of a remote southern Appalachian community in the nineteenth century. It should lay to rest older images of the region as isolated and static, but it raises new questions about the nature of that premodern community."
—Ronald D Eller, American Historical Review
Not only is his book a worthy addition to the growing body of work recognizing the complexities of southern mountain society; it is also a lively testament to the value of local history and the variety of levels at which it can provide significant enlightenment."
—John C. Inscoe,LOCUS
--Gordon B. McKinney, Western Carolina University.
"This is a fine book. . . . It is mostly about community and interrelationships, and thus it refutes much of the literature that presents Southern Mountaineers as individualistic, irreligious, violent, and unlawful."
—Loyal Jones, Appalachian Heritage.
"Dunn . . . has written one of the best books ever produced about the Southern mountains."
—Virginia Quarterly Review.
"This study offers the first detailed analysis of a remote southern Appalachian community in the nineteenth century. It should lay to rest older images of the region as isolated and static, but it raises new questions about the nature of that premodern community."
—Ronald D Eller, American Historical Review
Not only is his book a worthy addition to the growing body of work recognizing the complexities of southern mountain society; it is also a lively testament to the value of local history and the variety of levels at which it can provide significant enlightenment."
—John C. Inscoe,LOCUS