East Tennessee State University
Resorts in Southern Appalachia: A Microcosm of American Resorts in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries.
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Five resorts in East Tennessee--Montvale Springs and the Wonderland Hotel in the Smokies, Tate Spring in the Holston River Valley, Unaka Springs on the Nolichucky River, and the Cloudland Hotel at the summit of Roan Mountain--stand testament to the proposition that their region engaged fully with areas outside southern Appalachia. Their origins, clientele, and health and leisure offerings followed those of other resorts of the same time period. Moreover, the effects of national socioeconomic trends on the hotels serve as a contradiction to the stereotype of southern Appalachia as an isolated region barricaded from the outside world by mountainous topography. The East Tennessee resorts covered in this thesis indicate that the region as a whole was emblematic of national socioeconomic and cultural trends.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MA (Master of Arts)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis - unrestricted
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2004
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Fanslow, Mary F.
Subjects
dc:subject × 10Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright by the authors.
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/961
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-2118