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Country People in the New South - Tennessee's Upper Cumberland (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
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Country People in the New South - Tennessee's Upper Cumberland (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
Series: Studies in Rural Culture
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Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local
legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully
resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith
explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in
Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until the 1890s, the
Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited
government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men
controlled their families' labor and opposed economic risk taking;
farm women married young, had large families, and produced much of
the family's sustenance. But the arrival of the railroad in 1890
transformed the local economy. Farmers battled town dwellers for
control of community institutions, while Progressives called for
cultural, political, and economic modernization. Keith demonstrates
how these conflicts affected the region's mobilization for World
War I, and she argues that by the 1920s shifting gender roles and
employment patterns threatened traditionalists' cultural hegemony.
According to Keith, religion played a major role in the adjustment
to modernity, and local people united to support the 'Monkey Law'
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