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Praise for the First Edition"For an understanding of what was happening and what southern progressivism was all about, [Grantham] has produced a monumental history and resources which may be added to and reinterpreted, but is not likely to be superseded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870496295Author Rodger CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams)...

Do, Die, or Get Along weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country. Filled with evidence of a new kind of local outlook on the widespread challenge of small...

The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from...

For more than five centuries, the Atchafalaya River Basin has captured the flow of the Mississippi River, becoming its main distributary as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico in south Louisiana. This dynamic environment, comprising almost a million acres of...

In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches-archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical-to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the...

As early as the eighteenth century, Spanish explorers left place-names, lost mines, and legends scattered throughout Colorado's San Juan Mountains. In 1869 and the early 1870s the legends lured hopeful prospectors to the area, ushering in its greatest...

For nearly 350 years after Columbus's landing, the remote Northern Rocky mountain homeland of the Flathead and Coeur d'Alene tribes remained a safe haven, virtually unmapped and unexplored by whites. But heralded by Indian prophecies and a request for...

Traces the development of the Four Corners region - where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona meet - and its two main industries - tourism and mining - to illustrate how each contributed to the economic and urban transformation of the region over the...

Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can see to can't," process that required not only a wide range of specialized...

Winner, Kate Broocks Bates Award, Texas State Historical Association Presidio La BahIa Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic BookModern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865260139Author Weymouth T. Jordan Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 580Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office of...

This book tells the story of the Chippewa Indians in the regions around Lake Superior-the fabled land of Kitchigami. It tells of their woodland life, the momentous impact of three centuries of European and American societies on their culture, and how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877370451Author William A. LovisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Cranbrook Institute of SciencePublisher Cranbrook Institute of ScienceWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816525799Author C. Vance HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 955g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870497841Author Paul ShackelFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams) 545g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877459309Author Paula M. NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870492488Author Charles HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams) 897g

From the Mississippi west to the Pacific, from border to border north and south, here is the first thorough overview of novelists, historians, and artists of the modern American West. Examining a full century of cultural-intellectual forces at work, a...

A challenge to the long-held view that the only important and influential politicians in post-Reconstruction Deep South states were Democrats.In this insightful and exhaustively researched volume, Samuel L. Webb presents new evidence that, contrary to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWayne Flynt is Distinguished University Professor of History at Auburn University and author or coauthor of 11 books, including Alabama Baptists: Southern...

This second installment of a multivolume work on the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition of 1886-1889 focuses on a report written by Cushing on the origins and early months of the expedition. Hidden in several archives for a century, the...

In the midst of the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived seemingly unaffected by the economic calamity. They were writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, composers, singers, actors, adventurers and socialites. Newspaperman Maury...

Euclid Avenue, which runs through the heart of downtown Cleveland, was for 60 years one of the finest residential streets of any city in 19th century America. Showplace of America is the fascinating account of the rise and fall of this elegant promenade,...

"I found it filled with many interesting things . . . ."---Arthur Miller"For those of us who have admiration and affection for the university and the city of Ann Arbor, it is fascinating reading."---Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United...

This work provides an English translation of the history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule. A Mexican-Californian, Osio writes of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political...

Despite Wisconsin's rich history, no historical atlas has been produced in the state since 1878. This text presents a colourful portrait of the state's complex development. The atlas highlights the peoples and cultures, economy and land, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870499753Author Howard KesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams) 123g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738549866Author Kathryn W. BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738544311Author Amy Gillis LowryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738537337Author William M. VarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738514567Author Berkeley ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738543635Author Beverly G. BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738543437Author Richard DabneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738523781Author Michael BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 241mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738523736Author Marilyn Harris CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738523668Author Judith Westlund RosbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738524962Author Bennie, Jr. McraeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738514444Author Ann FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738514369Author Cynthia ThumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia Publishing