Critical Essays in Appalachian Life and Culture, Rick Simon

Автор: Anthony Harkins, Meredith McCarroll
Название: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
ISBN: 1946684783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946684783
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Описание: With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region’s future?Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia’s intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.

Автор: Elizabeth C. Fine
Название: Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 7, 1995: Appalachia and the Politics of Culture
ISBN: 146963693X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469636931
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Описание: This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Elizabeth C. Fine; Archie Green; Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer; Susan Eike Spalding; Linda Plaut and Lyn Wolz; Kathleen Curtis Wilson; Donald Edward Davis; Tom Costa; Robert Weise; Mary LaLone; Kim Gillespie; Anita Puckett; Pam B. Cole; Shaunna L. Scott; Sally Ward Maggard; and Richard Blaustein.

Автор: Harkins Anthony, McCarroll Meredith
Название: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
ISBN: 1946684791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946684790
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Описание: With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region’s future?Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia’s intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.

Автор: Saul A. Cornell, Nathan Kozuskanich
Название: The Second Amendment on Trial: Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller
ISBN: 1558499946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781558499942
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Описание: On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbia's stringent gun control laws as a violation of the Second Amendment. Reversing almost seventy years of settled precedent, the high court reinterpreted the meaning of the ""right of the people to keep and bear arms"" to affirm an individual right to own a gun in the home for purposes of self-defense. The landmark ruling not only opened a new chapter in the contentious history of gun rights and gun control but also revealed both the strengths and problems of originalist constitutional theory and jurisprudence.This volume brings together some of the best scholarship on the Heller case, with essays by legal scholars and historians representing a range of ideological viewpoints and applying different interpretive frameworks. Following the editors' introduction, which describes the issues involved and the arguments on each side, the essays are organized into four sections. The first includes two of the most important historical briefs filed in the case, while the second offers different views of the role of originalist theory. Section three presents opposing interpretations of the ruling and its relationship to modern constitutional doctrine. The final section explores historical research post-Heller, including new findings on patterns of gun ownership in colonial and Revolutionary America.In addition to the editors, contributors include Nelson Lund, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Jack Rakove, Reva B. Siegel, Cass R. Sunstein, Kevin M. Sweeney, and J. Harvie Wilkinson III.

Автор: Schulman Bruce J.
Название: Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
ISBN: 0199845417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199845415
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this volume, a group of distinguished historians revisit and revise many of the chestnuts of American political history. Blurring the boundaries between political, cultural, and economic history, the contributors raise penetrating questions and challenge readers` understanding of the broader narrative of twentieth-century U.S. history.

Автор: Grow Matthew J.
Название: From the Outside Looking in: Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
ISBN: 0190244666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190244668
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Описание: This book contains fifteen essays from leading historians and religious studies scholars, each originally presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association.

Автор: Grem Darren E., Ownby Ted, Thomas Jr James G.
Название: Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson
ISBN: 1496820479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496820471
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Описание: Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Randall J. StephensOver more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson's research and writing transformed southern studies in key ways. This volume pays tribute to and extends Wilson's seminal work on southern religion and culture. Using certain episodes and moments in southern religious history, the essays examine the place and power of religion in southern communities and society. It emulates Wilson's model, featuring both majority and minority voices from archives and applying a variety of methods to explain the South's religious diversity and how religion mattered in many arenas of private and public life, often with life-or-death stakes.The volume first concentrates on churches and ministers, and then considers religious and cultural constructions outside formal religious bodies and institutions. It examines the faiths expressed via the region's fields, streets, homes, public squares, recreational venues, roadsides, and stages. In doing so, this book shows that Wilson's groundbreaking work on religion is an essential part of southern studies and crucial for fostering deeper understanding of the South's complicated history and culture.

Автор: Fred R. van Hartesveldt
Название: Middle Georgia and the Approach of Modernity: Essays on Race, Culture and Daily Life, 1885-1945
ISBN: 1476666903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476666907
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Описание: By the late 19th century Middle Georgia was really a hybrid and writing about it requires a dual approach. On the first hand, little is known and original research is vital. On the second, descriptions of the lives and struggles of everyday people, with some nods to those involved in what is often called “high culture,” give a fascinating picture of that era while raising road signs pointing to modern times. A grizzly mass murder sets the scene in the late 19th century introducing themes of race, class, and poverty. As the 20th century unfolds, African American struggles to help one another gain practical (mostly agricultural) and academic knowledge against the barriers of Jim Crow emerge. Women, also struggling to overcome traditional barriers, found a hero in a pioneering female pilot who lived and flew in Middle Georgia. The role of government in these struggles as well as in the effort to protect communities during the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the Great Depression foreshadows its expansion into the 21st century. Private endeavor was more important for farmers as they struggled for crop diversification in the face of declining cotton prices and the destruction of the crop by the boll weevil. Middle Georgia saw the development of a national pimento pepper industry as part of that diversification. So these are stories about Middle Georgians and their struggles to care for themselves and how in doing so, they took ground-breaking steps toward creating modern life in their region.

Автор: Zemler Jeffrey Allen, Zemler Jeffery Allen
Название: James Madison, the South, and the Trans-Appalachian West, 1783 1803
ISBN: 073918217X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739182178
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Описание: This study examines the strong cultural and political bonds between the American South and trans-Appalachian West and argues that the strong relationship had its origins in the work of far-sighted Southerners in the two decades following the American Revolution.

Автор: Jon Lauck
Название: The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture, Volume 3
ISBN: 1941813194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941813195
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Описание: Not all politics is party politics. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than within the boundaries of South Dakota. Although the state is known for its agrarian conservatism, political tradition in the land of infinite variety is more than simply Republican or Democrat. An awareness of the influence of culture lies at the core of understanding the decisions of political leaders and voters alike.In this capstone volume of The Plains Political Tradition series, editors Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller, and Paula M. Nelson gather essays from historians and other scholars who identify major influences on the political culture of South Dakota. Against a backdrop of agricultural ups and downs, varied religious beliefs, worldwide conflict, and powerful personalities, the authors examine ingredients critical to the success and failure of civic movements, legislation, and political campaigns and careers.

Автор: Clark & Hayward
Название: Talking Appalachian
ISBN: 081314096X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813140964
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Описание: Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have organized to preserve regional dialects -- complex forms of English peppered with words, phrases, and pronunciations unique to the area and its people. Talking Appalachian examines these distinctive speech varieties and emphasizes their role in expressing local history and promoting a shared identity.Beginning with a historical and geographical overview of the region that analyzes the origins of its dialects, this volume features detailed research and local case studies investigating their use. The contributors explore a variety of subjects, including the success of African American Appalachian English and southern Appalachian English speakers in professional and corporate positions. In addition, editors Amy D. Clark and Nancy M. Hayward provide excerpts from essays, poetry, short fiction, and novels to illustrate usage. With contributions from well-known authors such as George Ella Lyon and Silas House, this balanced collection is the most comprehensive, accessible study of Appalachian language available today.