Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland

The Journal of Southern History | February 1, 2006| | Copyright

Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland. Edited by Michael E. Birdwell and W. Calvin Dickinson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 369. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2309-7.)

Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland is an anthology on the region defined as the drainage basin of the Cumberland River and its tributaries in Tennessee and Kentucky. (Two maps help the reader locate the region and its counties.) The editors explain that the essays focus on culture, construed in a broad way, and fall into three categories: popular culture, material culture, and warfare ...

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