The Appalachian Frontier (eBook)

America's First Surge Westward

John Anthony Caruso (Autor)

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2025 | 1., First Edition
424 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
9798895271384 (ISBN)

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John Anthony Caruso's The Appalachian Frontier, first published in 1959, captures the drama and sweep of a nation at the beginning of its westward expansion. Bringing to life the region's history from its earliest seventeenth-century scouting parties to the admission of Tennessee to the Union in 1796, Caruso describes the exchange of ideas, values, and cultural traits that marked Appalachia as a unique frontier. Looking at the rich and mountainous land between the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, The Appalachian Frontier follows the story of the Long Hunters in Kentucky; the struggles of the Regulators in North Carolina; the founding of the Watauga, Transylvania, Franklin, and Cumberland settlements; the siege of Boonesboro; and the patterns and challenges of frontier life. While narrating the gripping stories of such figures as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, and Chief Logan, Caruso combines social, political, and economic history into a comprehensive overview of the early mountain South. In his new introduction, John C. Inscoe examines how this work exemplified the so-called consensus school of history that arose in the United States during the cold war. Unabashedly celebratory in his analysis of American nation building, Caruso shows how the development of Appalachia fit into the grander scheme of the evolution of the country. While there is much in The Appalachian Frontier that contemporary historians would regard as one-sided and romanticized, Inscoe points out that ';those of us immersed so deeply in the study of the region and its people sometimes tend to forget that the white settlement of the mountain south in the eighteenth century was not merely the chronological foundation of the Appalachian experience. As Caruso so vividly demonstrates, it is also represented a vitaleven definingstage in the American progression across the continent.'

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Appalachian Echoes Non-Fiction
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: admission of Tennessee to the Union in 1796 • American History • American nation building and Appalachian frontier settlement • analysis of The Appalachian Frontier by John C. Inscoe • appalachian history • Appalachian Studies • biography of Daniel Boone in Appalachian history • Chief Logan and Native American history in Appalachia • consensus school of history in the Cold War era • Cumberland settlement pioneers and history • defining stage of Appalachian and American frontier history • early history of the Appalachian frontier • founding of the Franklin settlement in the mountain South • George Rogers Clark and Appalachian frontier expansion • history of Appalachia and American westward expansion • history of pioneers in the Appalachian mountains • history of the Watauga settlement in Appalachia • John Anthony Caruso • John Anthony Caruso The Appalachian Frontier book • nineteenth-century American history • Ohio River valley frontier history • regional history • Regional studies • romanticized views of Appalachia in mid twentieth century history • seventeenth century exploration of Appalachia • siege of Boonesboro frontier story • social political and economic history of Appalachia • stories of the Long Hunters in Kentucky • struggles of the North Carolina Regulators • Tennessee River valley expansion stories • Transylvania settlement frontier history • us history • white settlement of the Appalachian mountains in the eighteenth century
• ISBN-13: 9798895271384 / 9798895271384