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Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684420247Author Wade G. DudleyFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683368724Author Jacquelyn Tracy WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 544g

From Norfolk Naval Base, the world's largest naval base, to the Norfolk Southern Railway, one of North America's largest railroads, Historic Photos of Norfolk is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs,...

Twenty years of silence. No one talked about it. No one wanted to. The public was shocked by ghastly televised images of an uncontrollable inferno and of the endless views of twisted, charred remains of what had been billed as "The Showplace of the...

Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic...

In Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South, award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries, letters and poems to craft an innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South...

This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to...

Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citizens. With far too little help from indifferent, incompetent government agencies, low-income people bore the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103060Author Raymond P. SinibaldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143554Author Cathy J. KaemmerlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467138659Author Darla SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares centre stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labour of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143578Author William J. ThibodeauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141017Author Virginia C. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408g

"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103015Author David H. SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 308g

The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta...

"What did happen here there have been so many tales and outright lies told. It has been hard to see through the smoke to see the truth. Now memory, memory is like a loaded pistol it can turn again who's a-holdin' it." - J. Sidna Allen in Thunder in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467129886Author Austin J. BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 166mm * 8mm

In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state. These accounts provide a record of the business of death as it has been practiced in...

This is the heralded ""definitive history"" of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 years in the Land of Sunshine.Twenty-three leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626198876Author Michael C HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626196896Author Joseph Earl DabneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561641390Author Gene M BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144124Author Tim HollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 20g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609498634Author Lake E., Jr. HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609494407Author G Wayne DowdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010950Author Ibrahima SeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103398Author Todd DefeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626194359Author Stephen KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This title explores the diverse and changing patterns of Georgia women's lives. This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping...

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colourful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499273Author Kim JohnstonFormat PaperbackImprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 227g

Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738587967Author Joe KirbyFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439158609Author Tal McTheniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626196872Author Paul OswellFormat PaperbackImprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625859853Author Mark MuncyFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 13mm