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From frontier to organized settlements, the Middle Tennessee homeland and market developed quickly and produced waves of land speculation, great wealth and divisive politics in this precise history.

If you love to cook, you'll love this book. Every recipe I have prepared from this cookbook a has been fantastic. If you have a friend or relative who hails from the 'Volunteer State', they will love the exerpts from each county.

I bought this book to replace a Southern cookbook that has disappeared. It wasn't the one that I wanted, but such a happy find! Just like stepping into my Grandma's or mother's kitchen! At every turn of the page I came across yet another old friend. If you're looking for real Southern cooking in the Carolina-Tennessee style, you can't do better than Miss Mary's.

When we think of the Civil Rights movement we reflect on the efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all of the great challenges of the 1960s and 1970s. Professor Mary Ward takes us through a time before the movement where the foundation for social progress was being realized. A Mission for Justice is a detailed look at the struggles of the African American people by way of the Black church. I have had the privilege of taking classes with Professor Ward at Fordham University. She brought to her classes intensity and impressive knowledge about the African American experience and the Black Church. I believe you'll feel the same in her book.

Having grown up with a grandfather that still knew some of the language, I was additionally enlightened on reading this book.
The theme of the depth of influence of Eastern woodland Indians on the American sub-culture in South has been severely neglected. So much of what is held to be Anglo or "African" factors seem more & more to be native. Food, words, family residential & migration patterns, attutudes of self-preservation & family loyalities all seem to be in part drawn form our mixed-blood heritage. Even with those who are unaware of it.
excellent book.

This book is excellent if you are tired of the hussle and bussle of the city and looking for a GREAT weekend trip to the mountains. The maps are a little hard to see but the write-ups for all of the Inns are tremendous. Also included is what to do around the town with restuarants included.

John C. Inscoe is probably one of the most prolific scholars on Southern Appalachian History; Mountain Masters is in many ways the work that firmly planted him in the historiographic tradition of Western North Carolina. Mountain Masters relies on many primary sources (not just a wide variety of them, but a thorough use of them as well) to portray what slavery was really like in Western North Carolina through the Civil War. In opposition to many popular notions, in which slavery didn't exist or was marginal in Western North Carolina, John Inscoe revealed that Western North Carolina was not very different from the rest of the south in trading, selling, buying, and working slaves. Though the patterns of slavery were different in many cases, the institution was still very strong in the region and had a profound impact on the politics, society, and cultural values of the people of the mountains. This book ought to be read by every North Carolina scholar, every slavery scholar, and certainly by every scholar who studies the Southern Appalachians. It is beautifully written and engaging.

Scholarly, yet highly readable. Professor Fowler's new book provides needed background on the motivations of East Tennessee's Confederate volunteers, their wartime service, their medical histories and, uniquely, their post-war lives.

In the tradition of Inscoe, Fisher, McKenzie, Groce, et al, "Mountaineers in Gray" sheds much more light on East Tennessee's Confederates from Hamilton, Knox, Washington, Sullivan, Rhea, McMinn, Polk and Hawkins counties.

Organized by the wealthy Anderson County attorney and plantation owner, Col. David H. Cummings, the Nineteenth fought in almost all of the battles in the Western Theatre from 1861-65. After he was wounded at Shiloh, Col. Cummings joined his son as a cotton factor in New Orleans, Louisiana and on their plantation near Baton Rouge. Col. F.M. Walker replaced him.

The 62 pages of Endnotes and Bibliography are worth the price of the book by themselves for any serious student of the war in the Western Theatre.

The design and production of this and other recent University of Tennessee Press books is worthy of emulation by other publishers. Their method of providing headings (ie., "Notes to Pages 12-18") for the endnotes is especially noteworthy.

As a Past-President of the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable, I can recommend this landmark treatise without reservation.

If you're an eleven-year-old, you're going to love this book. If you're a forty-year-old, you're going to love this book. That's because the storyline is fun to follow, the characters seem real and quite engaging, the bad people are sometimes hypnotic, the emotions are deeply felt and simply expressed, and the alligator is hungry but likeable. It's almost impossible not to think of other great classics ostensibly written for young people but in reality bearing a message for us old fuddy-duddies, too--Huckleberry Finn, Ol' Yeller, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dandelion Wine (if you loved these books, you'll be open to enjoying this one). Try this wonderful Southern tale, the latest from popular children's author Allen Johnson Jr.

If you are interested in real learning and in education for social change, not in schooling or in maintaining the status quo, then this is a must-read book. Myles is an educational visionary; the education system in this country needs a revolution, not more reforms or patches. If you feel this way read this and other books by Myles Horton and other visionaries like John Dewey, Paulo Friere, to name just a few