People of the Upper Cumberland Achievements and Contradictions

Name: People of the Upper Cumberland Achievements and Contradictions
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ISBN: 9781621901099

ISBN-10: 1621901092

ISBN-13: 9781621901099

Edition: 2nd 2015

Authors: Michael E. Birdwell, William Calvin Dickinson

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Unified by geography and themes of tradition and progress, the essays in this anthology present a complex view of the Upper Cumberland area of Tennessee and Kentucky--a remote and, in some ways, mysterious region--and its people. The distinguished contributors cover everything from early folk medicine practices (Opless Walker), to the changing roles of women in the Upper Cumberland (Ann Toplovich), to rarely discussed African American lifeways in the area (Wali R. Kharif). The result is an astonishingly fresh contribution to studies of the Upper Cumberland area.Randall D. Williams's essay on the relatively unknown history of American Indians in the region opens the collection, followed by…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Publication date: 5/28/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 434
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Michael E. Birdwell is an Assistant Professor in History at Tennessee Tech and Curator of Alvin C. York's Papers. His work has been published in Film History, Literature/Film Quarterly, The Columbia Companion to Film, and several other journals.