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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626197695Author Blake EllsFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with small fishing villages, through to the tragic and...

From the formation of the Georgia colony in 1732 to the end of the Great Depression, the Okefenokee Swamp was a site of conflict between divergent local communities. Coining the term 'ecolocalism' to describe how local cultures form out of ecosystems and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596299450Author Troy TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 10mm

Caliph Washington didn’t pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South. As He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692950364Author Kathy C SpiessFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Kathy C SpiessPublisher Kathy C SpiessWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193307Author Steve CoomesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467135412Author Executive Director Will MichaelsFormat PaperbackImprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386g

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Caliph Washington didn’t pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South. Widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561644322Author William R AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561641178Author Gene BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 390g

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate...

Mardi Gras festivities don't end after the parades roll through the streets; rather, a large part of the celebration continues unseen by the general public. Retreating to theaters, convention centers, and banquet halls, krewes spend the post-parade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945624070Author Guy LancasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Butler Center for Arkansas StudiesPublisher Butler Center for Arkansas...

In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a...

Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, ""If I send away all the...

The fourth volume in our series of state military histories. The author is a senior historian with the Army Historical Foundation. Many key battles in American history occurred in North Carolina, including Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain,...

Shrimp is easily America's favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry's existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou provides insightful analysis of this paradox and a...

In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable...

Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges. For ten months, integrated groups of ministers...

The seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers-oftentimes folks who were either already acquainted with maritime livelihoods or those who quickly adapted to the resources of the region. For...

In the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after this awful discovery, Julie Kabat's beloved brother Luke...

Wading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast frames the fight for beach and school desegregation within the history of Black life in Biloxi, beginning with the arrival of slave ships on the Gulf Coast islands in 1721. Detailing the buildup of...

The unvarnished history of America’s most notorious palace and its American queen Moments before the Roaring Twenties sunk into the Great Depression, socialite heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financier E.F. Hutton constructed an estate to outdo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146012Author Jeremy W GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145602Author Anne Chesky SmithFormat 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 9781467106139Author Mary Ellen RiddleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147781Author David W ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 20g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467106733Author Elizabeth Ownley CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146821Author James O LukenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149457Author Helen Hill NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467152686Author Heather ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108751Author Savannah River Site MuseumFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107877Author Austin J HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467106740Author Sue Kovach ShumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint 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 9781467148092Author Anne PedenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107464Author West Baton Rouge Historical AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108768Author Elizabeth RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g