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Selling The Southern Highlands: Tourism And Community Development In The Mountain South, Christopher Brenden Martin

Doctoral Dissertations

Focusing on Buncombe County, North Carolina, Blount County, Tennessee, and Sevier County, Tennessee as representative resort areas in the mountain South, this study recognizes tourism as a central factor in the historical development of the region's cultural identity, economy, and landscape. In studying the variant development patterns of resort communities in the southern highlands, it is apparent that tourism has simultaneously produced both continuity and change as well as positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, tourism has often served as a source of economic, cultural, and environmental preservation. Tourism has helped to maintained cultural distinctiveness, historical identity, and …

The Cross And The Cauldron: The Relationship Between Religion And Magic In Selected Medieval And Modern Arthurian Texts, Robert Todd Bruce

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

Punk Preludes, Travis Gerarde Buck

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

The Macroeconomics Of Sir William Petty And Nicholas Barbon : Were Their Discoveries Inevitable?, James Henry Ullmer

Doctoral Dissertations

The notion of how a discipline acquires knowledge has twin hypotheses. Discovery may be the result of individual genius or it may simply occur when certain existential factors arise in a society. Robert Merton is the most well-known proponent of the latter supposition and cites as empirical evidence for this notion, simultaneous and independent discoveries of similar concepts, which he terms "multiples." Opponents of this thesis, such as Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, criticize the idea for several reasons. For example, there is the problem of long-delayed discovery, as well as the notion that scholars may write before their time, and finally the …

The Desegregation Of Clinton High School : Then And Now, Valerie Marie Hulett Herd

Masters Theses

This study examines the turmoil and violence surrounding the 1956 desegregation of Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee and the subsequent bombing of the school in 1958. I draw from sociological theories in political economy, status politics, and social movements. By examining historic events occurring in the U.S. as well as Clinton, Tennessee prior to 1956, the impact of social and economic conditions is established thus explaining the social movements and countermovements that arose. This study incorporates media reports as well as interviews conducted with fifteen individuals who had lived in the Clinton area during the time of the integration …

Effacing The Blots From Their Otherwise Fair Escutcheon : Problems Of Public Health In Leicester 1849-1891, Scott Edward Roney

Masters Theses

This study concerns two public health problems in Victorian Leicester: sewerage and 'summer diarrhoea.' The problems are considered to have been constructed socially as well as materially. While neither problem was unique to Leicester, there were circumstances which made the town's responses to the problems unique. The methodological lens for the study is a quasi-Kuhnian conceptualization called an 'accepted remedy.’ It is posited that the existence or absence of a consensually-held accepted remedy for a specific public health problem was a significant factor in determining how a community would respond to the problem and how successful such a response might …

The Journalism Of Patrick F. Mcmanus : His Niche In Outdoor Humor, Tim Miller Strickland

Masters Theses

The role of Patrick F. McManus in the genre of outdoor journalism is examined. Methods and procedures included a biographical study; a personal interview with the subject; an analysis of the critical reception to his work; and an analysis of his literary style. The findings include: that McManus' childhood lifestyle prepared him for his success as a writer; that while McManus is opinionated, he works diligently to avoid controversial topics, including those about which he has strong opinions; that McManus has enjoyed a largely positive reception from book critics; and that McManus now stands alone in his position in a …

Novel, Karin A. Beuerlain

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

Education And The Evolution Of The South : A History Of The Berry Schools, 1902-1970, Carol Anne Guthrie

Doctoral Dissertations

The history of the Berry Schools parallels important social and educational changes in the South throughout the twentieth century. In its first forty years, the school embraced a philosophy similar to that of the Southern Education Movement, whose leaders advocated practical mechanical and agricultural training as a means to uplift the South, Also, the school strove to inculcate its rural students with the paternalistic, planter-class values of its founder, Martha Berry. The school did this by developing a work program which trained students in practical matters such as farming, animal husbandry, construction, and carpentry. The student work program also enabled …

The Methodist Challenge To The Established Order In England, 1738-1791, Maynard W. Nordmoe

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Where There Be Mountains : Environmental And Cultural Change In The Appalachian South, 1500-1800, Donald Edward Davis

Doctoral Dissertations

"Where There Be Mountains" is an ethnohistorical study of environmental and cultural change in the Appalachian South. Utilizing a large body of primary and secondary sources, and drawing on the methodology of several disciplines, the author documents the evolution of subsistence techniques, land-use patterns, and ecological cultural practices in the southern mountains from 1500 A.D. to 1800 A.D.. One of the main goals of the study was to demonstrate the environment's influence on the formation and development of Mississippian, Cherokee, and early European culture.

Anthropometric Variation Of The Cherokee, Choctaw, Kiowa, And Pawnee Amerindians, Richard P. Bigee

Masters Theses

This thesis provides an overview of Anthropometric variation among six groups of American Indians: The Eastern Band of Cherokees, the Eastern Band of Choctaws, the Western Band of Cherokees, the Western Band of Choctaws, Kiowas, and Pawnees. Anthropometric variation among these groups is analyzed using a combination of historical and statistical information.

The history of the study groups was analyzed to determine the general level of health during the period leading up the point when they were measured under the direction of Dr. Franz Boas. It is revealed that all the study groups experienced considerable stress, which effected anthropometric measurements …

The Political Role Of Northern Irish Protestant Religious Denominations, Henry D. Fincher

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

Cherokee Death Customs, Laura Hill Hughes

Masters Theses

Cherokee death customs remain a vital part of Cherokee culture even though acculturation processes have been taking place for almost 200 years. Cherokee beliefs about death and dying are so deeply rooted in the traditional culture that they have survived without major changes since the early contact period. The influence of the dominant Appalachian white society has altered the rationale behind the wake, multiple soul concept, and perceptions of the afterlife. However, the rituals and omens associated with these beliefs have not changed. In spite of the fact that scholars have been predicting the demise of Cherokee culture, the subleties …

A Study Of White Spiritual Music And Twelve Related Concepts, Charles Douglas Barber

Masters Theses

As in other folk art, White spiritual music has not been welI-documented. In this particular case, there does not even exist a clear definition of this somewhat unknown and often misunderstood phenomenon.

The intent of this thesis is to present and justify a comprehensive definition of White spiritual music. To arrive at this goal, a two-fold approach was taken. The first chapter of the thesis does not deal precisely with White spiritual music, but rather with related and complementary concepts which are more familiar to the average person. This writer feels that what one may know or think he knows …

A Nutrition Field Experience With The City Of Houston Health Department, Houston, Texas, Sue Ann Neal

Masters Theses

This thesis relates observations and experiences during a seven-week nutrition field experience with the city of Houston Health Department during the spring of 1973. The field experience provided an opportunity for supplementing previous work experience and for evaluating developing capacities in the application of nutrition theory to the unique health needs of a community.

During this field experience the author primarily studied the diversified nutrition services available in the community and investigated the feasibility of developing a community nutrition organization to coordinate nutrition services within Houston and Harris County. Because the development of such an organization did not have the …

Charles Mcclung Mcghee, Southern Financier, William Joseph Macarthur Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

This is a study of Charles McClung McGhee (1828-1907), a Southern capitalist who achieved prominence as a railroad financier after the Civil War. Based primarily upon McGhee's personal papers in the McClung Historical Collection of Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee, the dissertation describes McGhee's transformation from planter to businessman and his rise to power in the affairs of the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad. Having become a provincial magnate by 1886, McGhee moved to New York City where he interested himself in the Richmond and West Point Terminal Company, a system of railroads which later became the Southern Railroad …

The Four Late Comedies Of Sean O'Casey, Roy W. Mehaffey

Masters Theses

“The Four Late Comedies of Sean O’Casey” investigates the varying types of comedy treatment in four of O’Casey’s late plays. These comedies, Purple Dust, Cock-a-doodle Dandy, The Bishop’s Bonfire, and The Drums of Father Ned, are examples of O’Casey’s later writing, which ranges from farce to symbolic fantasy.

Data for this study was gathered through the study of the above-mentioned plays, and the research of secondary sources, such as biographies on and critical texts about O’Casey and his works. The University of Tennessee Graduate Library was used as the resource center for this study.

The four comedies reveal many different …

Walter Savage Landor's Views On English Life And Literature: A Critical Study Of His English Imaginary Conversations, John William Warren

Doctoral Dissertations

To students of literature, Landor's dialogues of exposition will be worthwhile for their literary criticism and views on political and social history. On the other hand, the essentially dramatic Conversations have a more universal appeal as literary art, because in them principles and ideas give way to artistic presentation of character. In these dramatic scenes of historical and literary figures ot the English past, Landor skillfully creates drama or reve­ lation of character in the attitudes and personal reflections of his speakers without burdening the dialogues with his own historical documentation and exposition of ideas.

An Appraisal Of The Cannon County Board Of Education, J. Paul Turner

Masters Theses

The Cannon County board of education had been operating as a fifteen-man board for twenty years when this study was begun. A Special act¹ of the Extra-ordinary Session of the General Assembly in 1929 made certain exceptions to the General Education Bill of 1925 in its application to counties the size of Cannon County. Among these exceptions were: an increase in the size of the board, from seven to fifteen members; a change in the method of selecting board members, from the county court to the qualified voters of the civil districts; and a shortened term of office, from seven …

The Use Of Stabilizers In Ice Cream, Herman N. Carringer

Masters Theses

This study was undertaken for the purpose of comparing the efficiency and characteristics of various stabilizers used in ice cream mix with a basic stabilizer, sodium alginate (or Dariloid), as the index to the study.

Some Social And Economic Phases Of Reconstruction In East Tennessee, 1864-1869, James Bernard Campbell

Masters Theses

Preface: The Reconstruction period in Tennessee was dominated by the Unionists of the eastern part of the state. It is the purpose of this study to show the results of this domination as reflected in social and economic conditions, education, and the status of the Negro in the home region of the East Tennessee leaders.

The writer is greatly indebted to Professor Stanley J. Folmsbee for many helpful suggestions and criticisms in the preparation of this study and for the use of a chapter in his unpublished history of the University of Tennessee. The librarians of the McClung Collection, Lawson …

A Southern Journal Of 1838: Its Historical, Social And Literary Backgrounds, Emmie Delle Mullen

Masters Theses

(From the Introduction)

The discovery and study of a journal of considerable age is not unique. Journals, both published and unpublished, written alike by the famed and the obscure, are legion. A recently compiled bibliography of American diaries before 1861, which includes only the published diaries, is a substantial volume. It is, therefore, with some trepidation that I undertake for my thesis the study and editing of the journal of an almost completely unknown Southern woman who wrote it more than a century ago.

Thackeray's Reading, Mary H. Jenks

Masters Theses

Introduction: Before one can hope to gain an understanding of any author's work, and certainly before one can make any valid criticisms or interpretations of his writings, one should learn as much as possible about his life and his literary backgrounds. In studying the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, one observes that the tremendous amount and variety of his reading had a proportionate influence on the quality and range of his work. To date no serious study has been made of Thackeray's reading, although there have been numerous publications on his style, critical ability, humor, satire, travels, and personal life.

History Of Disciples Of Christ In Upper East Tennessee, H. C. Wagner

Masters Theses

Forward:

Any student of Tennessee history is aware of the fact that from the beginning the churches have played an important part in the development of the life of the state. The Disciples of Christ have been especially active in East Tennessee in the last 125 years, yet nothing has been written of their work. The purpose of this study has been to make a beginning on the research necessary for a full history of the Disciples of Christ in Tennessee. As such, it is largely a study in local church history, with a view to preserving the data and …

A Study Of Methods, Scope And Results Of Demonstrations Of The Soil Conservation Service In Camp Tennessee S.C.S.-4 Work Area, Joe David Mcclure

Masters Theses

(From Purpose of Study)

It is the purpose of the writer to make a study of this problem of soil erosion and soil conservation in a representative area of West Tennessee with the aim of determining some of the more important factors causing erosion and soil depletion. It is also desired to make a study of the soil conservation practices which have been tried out by various farmers in this area, the results of these practices and the practices recommended and demonstrated by the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, through cooperation with farmers in this …

Factors Determining The Production Areas Of Each Farm Commodity In Tennessee, Dalson Henry Esry

Masters Theses

The purpose of the study made in this manuscript is to assemble and to present in a readily available form the factors that influence the choice of areas where each specific farm commodity of importance is produced or may be produced. An investigator wishing to find out what forces may or may not be favorable to the production of corn may turn to the discussion of corn and find the material already assembled. If he wishes to make a more exhaustive study of a particular factor, the bibliography will aid him in finding the published works in which he might …

A History Of The Know-Nothing Party In Tennessee., Murry Bryant Measamer

Masters Theses

This study is intended to acquaint the reader with the chief facts regarding a state wide secret political order to which approximately half the population of Tennessee ince gave its support. It is not the purpose of the writer to defend this movement, neither is it his purpose to condemn. An earnest effort has been made, however, to present a clear and concise account of its nature, the issues concerned, and the political activitists involved.