Read and Download eBook Full
Author: James C. Klotter
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780916968243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive history of Kentucky during the first half of the twentieth century, presenting a sweeping view of these crucial years when the forces of continuity and change competed for primacy in the state.
Author: Robert S. Weise
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781572331129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"By closely studying the strategic blend of land ownership, subsistence agriculture, and commerce, Weise reveals how white male farmers in Floyd County attempted to achieve and preserve patriarchal authority and independence - and how this household localism laid the foundation for the region's development during the industrial era. By shifting attention from the actions of industrialists to those of local residents, he reconciles contradictory views of antebellum Appalachia and offers a new understanding of the region's history and its people."--Jacket.
Author: Ronald D. Eller
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780870493416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys." -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal.
Author: Shelley Smith Mastran
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1997-03-27
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 0813126215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, from Pikeville to the Purchase, from Covington to Corbin, this account reveals Kentucky's many faces and deep traditions. Lowell Harrison, professor emeritus of history at Western Kentucky University, is the author of many books, including George Rogers Clark and the War in the West, The Civil War in Kentucky, Kentucky's Road to Statehood , Lincoln of Kentucky, and Kentucky's Governors.
Author: James C. Klotter
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 0813189470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross more than six generations—beginning before the Revolutionary War—the Breckinridge family has produced a series of notable leaders. These often controversial men and women included a presidential candidate, a U.S. vice president, cabinet members, generals, women's rights advocates, congressmen, editors, reformers, authors, and church leaders. Along with success, the Breckinridges, like other Americans, faced hardship and war, contended with race, lived through difficult family situations—including a sex scandal—and encountered personal and political failure. An articulate, opinionated, and frank family, the Breckinridges have left a detailed record that allows us a vivid recreation of the range of American history and society.
Author: Frank Hopkins Heck
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780813102177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of John Cabell Breckinridge: "a lawyer, U.S. Representative, Senator from Kentucky, the 14th Vice President of the United States, Southern Democratic candidate for President in 1860, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the last Confederate Secretary of War. To date, Breckinridge is the youngest vice president in U.S. history, inaugurated at age 36. He is also remembered as the Confederate commander at the Battle of New Market, where young VMI cadets participated in the battle on the Confederate side."-Wikipedia.
Author: Donald Edward Davis
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0820340219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.
