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Book The Land Between the Lakes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald A. Foresta
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1621900207
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The Land Between the Lakes written by Ronald A. Foresta and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Barkley and Kentucky Lakes—two great, artificial bodies of water in western Tennessee and western Kentucky—lies a wooded land that looks from above like the flattened thumb of a green giant. Once a land of marginal farms and small settlements, this 240-square-mile peninsula, known as the Land Between the Lakes, has been a national recreation area for the last half-century. Its rolling, wooded hills and open bottomlands give the place charm but little majesty. The place swallows up its few campgrounds and visitors they attracts, creating a vacuous tranquility. In this volume, Foresta explores how this forgotten and bypassed region became a national recreation area. He uses its history to retrieve our old attitudes toward nature, progress, and personal development. He also uses its history to retrieve a vision of the future that rallied idealists, intellectuals, and even public officials to its banner. In the early 1960s, the Tennessee Valley Authority set out to create a great park for posterity at the Land Between the Lakes. The park was to host the vast stretches of leisure that wealthy, secure, and more equal Americans of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries would have at their disposal. It would be a place where such Americans could turn that leisure into happiness, psychic well-being, and strength of character. The TVA cleared the land of its inhabitants to create the park, removing people from their homes and severing their roots, thus effacing the history of the place. It then set about reshaping the land in the image of an anticipated future. But when that future never arrived, managers struggled to fit the place to the America that actually came into being. In the end they failed, leaving the Land Between the Lakes enveloped in a haunting sense of emptiness. A deft blend of environmental history, geography, politics, and cultural history, Land Between the Lakes demonstrates both the idealism of mid-twentieth-century planners and how quickly such idealism can fall out of alignment with the flow of history. In so doing it explores a forgotten vision of the future that was in many ways more appealing than the present that came into being in its place.

Book Compost  Application and Use

Download or read book Compost Application and Use written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State Minimum wage Laws and Orders  July 1  1942 July 1  1950

Download or read book State Minimum wage Laws and Orders July 1 1942 July 1 1950 written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Checklist of State Publications

Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sweetpotato

Download or read book The Sweetpotato written by Gad Loebenstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-21 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.

Book Public Documents

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  • Author : Louisiana State Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Public Documents written by Louisiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Agriculture

Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agrindex

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 936 pages

Download or read book Agrindex written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Serial Titles

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Book Louisiana Agriculture

Download or read book Louisiana Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book MONTHLY CHECKLIST OF STATE PUBLICATIONS

Download or read book MONTHLY CHECKLIST OF STATE PUBLICATIONS written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected State Publications Held by the National Agricultural Library

Download or read book Selected State Publications Held by the National Agricultural Library written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outlook for Women in Social Case Work in a Medical Setting

Download or read book The Outlook for Women in Social Case Work in a Medical Setting written by Agnes Wilson Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Facts on Women Workers

Download or read book Handbook of Facts on Women Workers written by United States. Women's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cotton

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  • Author : C. Wayne Smith
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 1999-08-30
  • ISBN : 9780471180456
  • Pages : 882 pages

Download or read book Cotton written by C. Wayne Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a vital new source of "need-to-know" information for cotton industry professionals. Unlike other references that focus solely on growing the crop, this book also emphasizes the cotton industry as a whole, and includes material on the nature of cotton fibers and their processing; cotton standards and classification; and marketing strategies.

Book The Outlook for Women in Social Case Work in a Medical Setting

Download or read book The Outlook for Women in Social Case Work in a Medical Setting written by Marguerite Wykoff Zapoleon and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: