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Building The Back Of Beyond: Government Authority, Community Life, And Economic Development In The Upper Little Tennessee Valley, 1880-1992, Stephen Wallace Taylor

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the relationships among government authority, community life, and economic development in the Upper Little Tennessee Valley. This area saw extensive growth during the first quarter of the twentieth century because of the exploitation of its timber and mineral resources. These industries introduced transient families into the area, contributing to the fragility of the economic and social structure. These transient families, like the longtime residents, embraced the regular paychecks industrial employment offered, and willingly participated in the exploitation of the area's resources, sacrificing long-term sustainable growth for the short-to-medium-term security of a cash income.

Following that period of …

Portraits Of Progress In New South Appalachia: Three Expositions In Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910-1913, Robert Douglas Lukens

Masters Theses

The following work is an examination of three expositions held in Knoxville, TN: The Appalachian Expositions of 1910 and 1911 and the National Conservation Exposition in 1913. World's fairs were ubiquitous across the United States at the turn of the century, but these were the first to be held in the southern Appalachian region. Thus, they provide a rare opportunity for the historian to examine society in a condensed time frame. Although this method has been applied to other expositions at other times, it has yet to be applied to southern Appalachia.

The goal of this thesis is to ascertain …

For Whom Is Mount Le Conte Named?, Ken Wise

Other Library Publications and Works

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Volunteer Moments: Vignettes Of The History Of The University Of Tennessee, 1794-1994, Milton M. Klein

Volunteer Moments

Volunteer Moments is collection of sketches of the people and events that illuminate the two-hundred year history of the University of Tennessee from its beginnings as Blount College through its redesignations as East Tennessee College and East Tennessee University and its emergence in the twentieth century as the statewide University of Tennessee system.

Originally appearing over the past several years in Context, the faculty and staff newspaper at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these carefully researched essays, produced by former University Historian Milton M. Klein and his staff, which were then compiled by Klein and his research associate, Margaret Ellen …

The Papers Of Andrew Jackson: Volume V, 1821-1824, Andrew Jackson

The Papers of Andrew Jackson

This fifth volume of The Papers of Andrew Jackson documents Jackson’s retirement from the military in 1821 and his emergence as the leading presidential candidate in 1824, winning a plurality of popular and electoral votes over John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and John C. Calhoun. In the interim, he served a troublesome few months as governor of Florida and thereafter enjoyed a brief retirement at the Hermitage before the Tennessee legislature called him again into service as United States senator.

The tension between Jackson’s longing for retirement and his dedication to public service forms the main theme …