Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563111659
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Gibson County, Tennessee
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563111659
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563111659
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Up from the Mudsills of Hell
Author: Connie L. Lester
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Up from the Mudsills of Hell analyzes agrarian activism in Tennessee from the 1870s to 1915 within the context of farmers’ lives, community institutions, and familial and communal networks. Locating the origins of the agrarian movements in the state’s late antebellum and post-Civil War farm economy, Connie Lester traces the development of rural reform from the cooperative efforts of the Grange, the Agricultural Wheel, and the Farmers’ Alliance through the insurgency of the People’s Party and the emerging rural bureaucracy of the Cooperative Extension Service and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. Lester ties together a rich and often contradictory history of cooperativism, prohibition, disfranchisement, labor conflicts, and third-party politics to show that Tennessee agrarianism was more complex and threatening to the established political and economic order than previously recognized. As farmers reached across gender, racial, and political boundaries to create a mass movement, they shifted the ground under the monoliths of southern life. Once the Democratic Party had destroyed the insurgency, farmers responded in both traditional and progressive ways. Some turned inward, focusing on a localism that promoted--sometimes through violence--rigid adherence to established social boundaries. Others, however, organized into the Farmers’ Union, whose membership infiltrated the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension Service. Acting through these bureaucracies, Tennessee agrarian leaders exerted an important influence over the development of agricultural legislation for the twentieth century. Up from the Mudsills of Hell not only provides an important reassessment of agrarian reform and radicalism in Tennessee, but also links this Upper South state into the broader sweep of southern and American farm movements emerging in the late nineteenth century.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Up from the Mudsills of Hell analyzes agrarian activism in Tennessee from the 1870s to 1915 within the context of farmers’ lives, community institutions, and familial and communal networks. Locating the origins of the agrarian movements in the state’s late antebellum and post-Civil War farm economy, Connie Lester traces the development of rural reform from the cooperative efforts of the Grange, the Agricultural Wheel, and the Farmers’ Alliance through the insurgency of the People’s Party and the emerging rural bureaucracy of the Cooperative Extension Service and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. Lester ties together a rich and often contradictory history of cooperativism, prohibition, disfranchisement, labor conflicts, and third-party politics to show that Tennessee agrarianism was more complex and threatening to the established political and economic order than previously recognized. As farmers reached across gender, racial, and political boundaries to create a mass movement, they shifted the ground under the monoliths of southern life. Once the Democratic Party had destroyed the insurgency, farmers responded in both traditional and progressive ways. Some turned inward, focusing on a localism that promoted--sometimes through violence--rigid adherence to established social boundaries. Others, however, organized into the Farmers’ Union, whose membership infiltrated the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension Service. Acting through these bureaucracies, Tennessee agrarian leaders exerted an important influence over the development of agricultural legislation for the twentieth century. Up from the Mudsills of Hell not only provides an important reassessment of agrarian reform and radicalism in Tennessee, but also links this Upper South state into the broader sweep of southern and American farm movements emerging in the late nineteenth century.
Indiana County, Pennsylvania her people, past and present
Author: J.T. Stewart
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871988156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
Indiana County, Pennsylvania her people, past and present, embracing a history of the county
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871988156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
Indiana County, Pennsylvania her people, past and present, embracing a history of the county
Seasons in the South
Author: Linda Gupton
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481753657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A great deal has been written about the military career of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn, but his death at the hands of infuriated Dr. George B. Peters hinted spying and espionage. A baby a short time later by Jessie McKissack Peters, the young wife of a much older physician and state senator husband who had been absent for a year, came into question. The fascinating families left to cope with the situations include servants who were taught trades that allowed them to rebuild the area. Descendants became the first blacks to receive architectural licenses.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481753657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A great deal has been written about the military career of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn, but his death at the hands of infuriated Dr. George B. Peters hinted spying and espionage. A baby a short time later by Jessie McKissack Peters, the young wife of a much older physician and state senator husband who had been absent for a year, came into question. The fascinating families left to cope with the situations include servants who were taught trades that allowed them to rebuild the area. Descendants became the first blacks to receive architectural licenses.
The Papers of Andrew Johnson
Author: Andrew Johnson
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
This volume contains correspondence related to the aftermath of the Civil War, including Johnson's ascension to the presidency and the beginnings of the conflict with Congress that would result in his near-impeachment.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
This volume contains correspondence related to the aftermath of the Civil War, including Johnson's ascension to the presidency and the beginnings of the conflict with Congress that would result in his near-impeachment.
Soil Survey of Gibson County, Tennessee
Author: Johnson C. Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
History of Gibson County, Indiana
Author: Gil R. Stormont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gibson County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gibson County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
West Tennessee Tributaries Project
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Lethal Punishment
Author: Margaret Vandiver
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813541069
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Why did some offenses in the South end in mob lynchings while similar crimes led to legal executions? Why did still other cases have nonlethal outcomes? In this well-researched and timely book, Margaret Vandiver explores the complex relationship between these two forms of lethal punishment, challenging the assumption that executions consistently grew out of-and replaced-lynchings. Vandiver begins by examining the incidence of these practices in three culturally and geographically distinct southern regions. In rural northwest Tennessee, lynchings outnumbered legal executions by eleven to one and many African Americans were lynched for racial caste offenses rather than for actual crimes. In contrast, in Shelby County, which included the growing city of Memphis, more men were legally executed than lynched. Marion County, Florida, demonstrated a firmly entrenched tradition of lynching for sexual assault that ended in the early 1930s with three legal death sentences in quick succession. With a critical eye to issues of location, circumstance, history, and race, Vandiver considers the ways that legal and extralegal processes imitated, influenced, and differed from each other. A series of case studies demonstrates a parallel between mock trials that were held by lynch mobs and legal trials that were rushed through the courts and followed by quick executions. Tying her research to contemporary debates over the death penalty, Vandiver argues that modern death sentences, like lynchings of the past, continue to be influenced by factors of race and place, and sentencing is comparably erratic.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813541069
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Why did some offenses in the South end in mob lynchings while similar crimes led to legal executions? Why did still other cases have nonlethal outcomes? In this well-researched and timely book, Margaret Vandiver explores the complex relationship between these two forms of lethal punishment, challenging the assumption that executions consistently grew out of-and replaced-lynchings. Vandiver begins by examining the incidence of these practices in three culturally and geographically distinct southern regions. In rural northwest Tennessee, lynchings outnumbered legal executions by eleven to one and many African Americans were lynched for racial caste offenses rather than for actual crimes. In contrast, in Shelby County, which included the growing city of Memphis, more men were legally executed than lynched. Marion County, Florida, demonstrated a firmly entrenched tradition of lynching for sexual assault that ended in the early 1930s with three legal death sentences in quick succession. With a critical eye to issues of location, circumstance, history, and race, Vandiver considers the ways that legal and extralegal processes imitated, influenced, and differed from each other. A series of case studies demonstrates a parallel between mock trials that were held by lynch mobs and legal trials that were rushed through the courts and followed by quick executions. Tying her research to contemporary debates over the death penalty, Vandiver argues that modern death sentences, like lynchings of the past, continue to be influenced by factors of race and place, and sentencing is comparably erratic.