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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788458385Author Wesley PippengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 953g

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Charles Torrey Simpson (1846-1932) settled in south Florida in 1902, a time when the vast expanse of islands and marshes that comprise the Everglades teemed with panthers, crocodiles, and great flocks of flamingos, egrets, ibis, herons, and wood storks...

As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party maintained control of the federal government, but the nation watched to see if Pennsylvania's first...

Dessens examines the legacy of approximately 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees--whites, slaves, and free people of color--who settled in Louisiana between 1791 and 1815. Forced to flee their French Caribbean colony following a slave rebellion that gave...

Florida is renowned for its beautiful beaches, natural springs, and subtropical wilderness, but it is widely joked that the official bird should be the construction crane. Dredge-and-fill projects, air pollution, and pesticides spread so uncontrollably...

Puerto Rico's colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory. Departing from these accounts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788403385Author Michael KelseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 272g

In this superb volume, James C. Cobb provides the first truly comprehensive history of the South since World War II, brilliantly capturing an era of dramatic change, both in the South and in its relationship with the rest of the nation. Here is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788413803Author Richard E SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's experiences across time and space from the state's earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this...

This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing...

For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colourful iconography, is lighthearted entertainment. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing...

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past? Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, The Accidental Slaveowner traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people...

Exploring 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 the...

This title presents civil rights, economic justice, and the competition for political power after the Voting Rights Act.""Carry It On"" is an in-depth study of how the local struggle for equality in Alabama fared in the wake of new...

The South has been largely overlooked in the debates prompted by the wave of welfare reforms during the 1990s. This book helps correct that imbalance. Using Richmond, Virginia, as an example, Elna C. Green looks at issues and trends related to two...

In 1956, state Senator Charley Johns was appointed the chairman of the newly formed Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, now remembered as the Johns Committee. This group was charged with the task of unearthing communist tendencies, homosexual...

Youngtown, Arizona, opened in 1954 and was the first development community to have a minimum age requirement (then 65) and to ban underage children as permanent residents. Developer Del Webb unveiled Sun City six years later. Adjacent to Youngtown, it...

How did the political party of Lincoln--of emancipation--become the party of the South and of white resentment? How did Jefferson Davis's old party become the preferred choice for most southern blacks? Most scholars date these transformations to the...

In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labour are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the...

"Featuring compelling biographical essays on individuals from the key groups who experienced the rapid shifts in national boundaries in the Gulf region, this work opens an exciting new perspective on the problems of identity and loyalty in a...

Florida provides a unique opportunity to explore the history of working men and women within a constantly changing environment. Stretching from the Spanish colonial period through the recent organizing efforts of service and agricultural workers, this...

"These essays explore the context and meaning of the three Seminole Wars in a way that illustrates how the conflicts intersected the mainstream of American history. America's longest wars truly impacted the country's national development...

After the Civil War, two states emerged as America's paradise destinations. Transformed from remote, sparsely populated locales into two of the most publicized destinations in the country, California and Florida also became the most desirable. Private...

Florida often seems not quite southern - yet it suffered more lynching than any of its Deep South neighbors when examined in proportion to the number of African American residents. Investigating this dark era of the state's history and focusing on a...

A biodiversity hotspot, Florida is home to many ecosystems and species that depend on frequent fire to exist. In this book, Reed Noss discusses the essential role of fire in generating biodiversity and offers best practices for using fire to keep the...

Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters...

Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519-1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solis de Meras, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America's oldest...

The Quarters and the Fields offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806320625Author Martha W McCartneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

How many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present? In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before," Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma's unique populist past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788423635Author Linda L GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788422591Author Rev Levin T ReichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788443176Author Roberto Valerio CostantinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 585g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788442803Author Linda L GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788441318Author Dorothy Francis AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788441233Author Ann Kicker BlomquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788457081Author Robert Alston JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788456299Author Brent H HolcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 503g