Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920UNC Press Books, 01.04.1986 - 400 Seiten Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to |
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The LocalColor Movement and the Discovery of Appalachia | 3 |
Protestant Home Missions and the Institutionalization of Appalachian Otherness | 32 |
Solving the Problem of Appalachian Otherness The Role of History and Environment | 59 |
Solving the Problem of Appalachian Otherness The Role of Ethnicity and Culture | 85 |
Naming as Explaining William Goodell Frost and the Invention of Appalachia | 113 |
6 Region as Community and the Transformation of Mountain Benevolence | 133 |
Economic Modernization and the Americanization of Appalachia | 157 |
8 The Southern Highland Division and the Institutionalization of Appalachian Regionalism | 186 |
Folk Schools and the Crafts Revival | 213 |
The Folksong Revival and the Integration of the Mountaineers into Modern American Civilization The Triumph of Pluralism | 244 |
Notes | 267 |
Bibliography | 309 |
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agencies Allen American civilization American Folk Lore American Missionary Appala Appalachia and America appeared Asheville attempt Ballads Berea College Berea Quarterly Campbell's Cecil Sharp characteristics Charles Charles Egbert Craddock Child Labor churches Claxton colorists context cotton mills crafts culture Cumberland denominational discrete region economic efforts established fact of Appalachian feuds folksong Handicrafts Harper's Magazine Highland Division Papers home missionaries Home Missions ibid industrial institutions interest isolation James Lane Allen John Journal of American Kentucky Mountains land and peculiar literary literature Mary Noailles Murfree modern Mountain Whites Murfree National Child Labor nature North Carolina northern Olive Dame Campbell patterns Presbyterian problem programs published reality rural schools Russell Sage Foundation settlement sketches social Society Songs South Southern Appalachians Southern Education Board Southern Highland Division southern mountain region Southern Mountain Workers stories survey tains Tennessee tion traditional unsigned Virginia William Goodell Frost York
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