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Author : Christian Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:1002282305
Author : Christian Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
ISBN : OCLC:11748469
Author : Christian Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : HARVARD:HN313W
Author : Christian Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:10371300
Author : Richard D. Starnes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780817356040
A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South. In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to relocate their households to vacation homes in the mountains of western North Carolina. Those unable to afford the expense of a second home relaxed at the hotels that emerged to meet their needs. This early tourist activity set the stage for tourism to become the region's New South industry. After 1865, the development of railroads and the bugeoning consumer culture led to the expansion of tourism across the whole region. Richard Starnes argues that western North Carolina benefited from the romanticized image of Appalachia in the post-Civil War American consciousness. This image transformed the southern highlands into an exotic travel destination, a place where both climate and culture offered visitors a myriad of diversions. This depiction was futher bolstered by partnerships between state and federal agencies, local boosters, and outside developers to create the atrtactions necessary to lure tourists to the region. As tourism grew, so did the tension between leaders in the industry and local residents. The commodification of regional culture, low-wage tourism jobs, inflated land prices, and negative personal experiences bred no small degree of animosity among mountain residents toward visitors. Starnes's study provides a better understanding of the significant role that tourism played in shaping communities across the South.
Author : C. Brenden Martin
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1572335750
"C. Brenden Martin examines tourism in the context of the transformation of transportation networks, urban and rural community development, and the changing role of government in regulating tourism. Martin illustrates how tourism represents a double-edged sword, cutting both ways in its impact on the region. It is a transformative force that has accelerated the modernization of the Mountain South in many ways, and yet tourism has also provided the main economic rationale for the region's cultural, historical, and environmental preservation movements."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anne Bridges,Russell Clement,Ken Wise
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572334786
Terra Incognita is the most comprehensive bibliography of sources related to the Great Smoky Mountains ever created. Compiled and edited by three librarians, this authoritative and meticulously researched work is an indispensable reference for scholars and students studying any aspect of the region’s past. Starting with the de Soto map of 1544, the earliest document that purports to describe anything about the Great Smoky Mountains, and continuing through 1934 with the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park—today the most visited national park in the United States—this volume catalogs books, periodical and journal articles, selected newspaper reports, government publications, dissertations, and theses published during that period. This bibliography treats the Great Smoky Mountain Region in western North Carolina and east Tennessee systematically and extensively in its full historic and social context. Prefatory material includes a timeline of the Great Smoky Mountains and a list of suggested readings on the era covered. The book is divided into thirteen thematic chapters, each featuring an introductory essay that discusses the nature and value of the materials in that section. Following each overview is an annotated bibliography that includes full citation information and a bibliographic description of each entry. Chapters cover the history of the area; the Cherokee in the Great Smoky Mountains; the national forest movement and the formation of the national park; life in the locality; Horace Kephart, perhaps the most important chronicler to document the mountains and their inhabitants; natural resources; early travel; music; literature; early exploration and science; maps; and recreation and tourism. Sure to become a standard resource on this rich and vital region, Terra Incognita is an essential acquisition for all academic and public libraries and a boundless resource for researchers and students of the region.
Author : Georgann Eubanks
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781469626062
This guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state, the book directs curious travelers to the historic sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. Along the way, travelers can read outstanding excerpts from the writers, evoking the places, customs, colloquialisms, and characters that figure prominently in their poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays. More than 170 writers from the past and present are featured in this volume, including Sequoyah, Elizabeth Spencer, Fred Chappell, Charles Frazier, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Robert Morgan, William Bartram, Gail Godwin, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Tyler, Lillian Jackson Braun, Nina Simone, and Romulus Linney. Each tour provides information about the libraries, museums, colleges, bookstores, and other venues open to the public where writers regularly present their work or are represented in exhibits, events, performances, and festivals.
Author : Larry E. Tise,Jeffrey J. Crow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634609
New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state's past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of "progressive" politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state's development. Contributors: Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina University Karl E. Campbell, Appalachian State University James C. Cobb, University of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen Feeley, McDaniel College Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology Charles F. Irons, Elon University David Moore, Warren Wilson College Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University Richard D. Starnes, Western Carolina University Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University
Author : Kevin E. O'Donnell,Helen Hollingsworth
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1572332786
An anthology of nineteenth-century travel writing about southern Appalachia, reflecting a body of magazine travel writing that emerged during a period in which the region was being discovered and defined within mainstream American culture.
Author : Bruce E. Stewart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813130002
Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol -- an integral part of daily life for many Appalachians -- was banned. In Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia, Bruce E. Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region's early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. Stewart analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord. Stewart also explores the life of the moonshiner and the many myths that developed around hillbilly stereotypes. A welcome addition to the New Directions in Southern History series, Moonshiners and Prohibitionists addresses major economic, social, and cultural questions that are essential to the understanding of Appalachian history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458715999
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458716149
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458716033
Author : Danny Bernstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467146883
DuPont Forest protects thousands of acres of trees, five lakes and more than one hundred miles of multiuse trails. It attracts hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers from all over the United States, and its six waterfalls have been featured in movies like The Hunger Games and The Last of the Mohicans. All of this natural beauty is easily accessible, increasing its appeal. It took not only the generosity of a multinational company but also Southern Appalachian grit and self-reliance and local activism to make these benefits available to all. DuPont Forest is young, and its future is still unfolding. Author and hiker Danny Bernstein traces the past of DuPont State Recreational Forest and shows its potential.