From Death, Life: An Economic and Demographic History of Civil War Era Knoxville and East Tennessee

Author

Steven Bradley Davis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Date of Award

8-2006

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Major

History

Major Professor

Stephen V. Ash

Committee Members

William Bruce Wheeler, Ernest Freeberg

Abstract

This thesis seeks to understand the economic/demographic impact of the American Civil War on Knoxville, Tennessee and the greater East Tennessee region. It is the contention of this work that the Civil War served as an economic/demographic catalyst, accelerating (although certainly not completing) the process by which both city and region were transformed from a rural, pre-modem economy based predominantly on subsistence agriculture to a more modem, industrializing economy based on manufacturing, resource extraction, and limited commercial farming.

Recommended Citation

Davis, Steven Bradley, "From Death, Life: An Economic and Demographic History of Civil War Era Knoxville and East Tennessee. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2006.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/4628