Tennessee Economic Development
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Classic Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Film DVD: 1930s New Deal Farm Floods History & Dam Electricity Construction Video w/ Farming & Agriculture Dams from the Great Depression $12.99 The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was started in 1933 and has grown to become the biggest power company in the United States. This film is about the construction of dams in the Tennessee Valley to help farm irrigation and prevent floods. Table Of Contents: (1) The Valley of the Tennessee (1940s) – A very good piece of American developmental history, this film shows the reasoning behind the impl… |
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Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier $40.97 “In tracing the evolution of political culture in early Tennessee, Kris Ray provides a sweeping study of the multifaceted ways in which early Americans understood leadership and democratic participation. Readers will find Middle Tennessee, 1775–1825 an engaging contribution to our understanding of how, in the crucible of the Early American Republic, democracy did not have to take the form of… |
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One Valley and a Thousand: Dams, Nationalism, and Development (Studies in Social Ecology & Environmental History) $37.30 By the end of the twentieth century, more then 45,000 large dams were built world wide displacing millions of people, and dramatically altering both ecosystems and social systems centered on rivers. A majority of these dams were constructed after 1945. This book seeks to explain the enormous global investment in dams since 1945 and explores their connections to political ideologies. It shows the l… |
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Modernizing Mountaineer: People, Power, Planning Appalachia $14.93 … |