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Essex County, Virginia Will Abstracts, 1751-1842 and Estate Records Index, 1751-1799 by Wesley Pippenger 9780788458385
RRP: $67.20$60.46Apologies 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 -
Clarke County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists: Volume 1, 1836-1853 by Marty Hiatt 9780788456701
$34.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788456701Author Marty HiattFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 245g -
Florida'S Pioneer Naturalist: The Life of Charles Torrey Simpson by Elizabeth O. Rothra 9780813032795
RRP: $62.90$49.16Charles 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... -
James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War by Michael J. Birkner 9780813060996
RRP: $52.40$51.41As 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... -
From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences by Nathalie Dessens 9780813035673
RRP: $58.70$46.03Dessens 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... -
Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century by Leslie Kemp Poole 9780813062327
$47.00Florida 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... -
Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States by Carlos Alamo-Pastrana 9780813062563
$172.12Puerto 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,... -
Marriage and Death Notices from the South Western Baptist Newspaper by Michael Kelsey 9780788403385
RRP: $40.95$36.14Apologies 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 -
The South and America since World War II by James C. Cobb 9780195166507
RRP: $46.18$40.24In 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... -
Leslie County, Kentucky Marriages, 1884-1894 by Richard E Sampson 9780788413803
$24.00Apologies 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 -
Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times by Cherisse Jones-Branch 9780820353319
$192.70Following 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... -
To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South by Angela Jill Cooley 9780820347585
$150.53This 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... -
The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820-1930 by Gregory J. Renoff 9780820344379
$64.74For 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... -
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family by Mark Auslander 9780820340425
RRP: $205.80$165.84What 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... -
Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times - Volume 1 by Ann Short Chirhart 9780820333366
RRP: $205.80$165.84Exploring 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... -
Carry it on: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 by Susan Youngblood Ashmore 9780820330518
$66.80This 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... -
This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 by Elna C. Green 9780820325521
$66.80The 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... -
Communists and Perverts Under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 by Stacy Braukman 9780813049045
RRP: $48.20$37.46In 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... -
From Sun Cities to The Villages: A History of Active Adult, Age-Restricted Communities by Judith Ann Trolander 9780813044484
RRP: $62.90$49.16Youngtown, 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... -
The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877-1933 by Edward O. Frantz 9780813044477
RRP: $56.60$44.44How 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... -
Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization by Mary E. Frederickson 9780813042275
RRP: $58.70$46.03In 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... -
Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s by Gene Allen Smith 9780813037271
RRP: $69.20$55.40"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's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration by Robert Cassenello 9780813037196
RRP: $62.90$49.16Florida 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... -
America'S Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858 by William S. Belko 9780813035253
$140.20"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... -
Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929 by Henry Knight 9780813061993
$54.50After 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... -
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida by Tameka Bradley Hobbs 9780813061047
$160.86Florida 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... -
Fire Ecology of Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain by Reed F. Noss 9780813056715
$150.53A 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... -
Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology by Rebecca Cawood McIntyre 9780813054148
$47.00Less 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 and the Conquest of Florida: A New Manuscript by Gonzalo Solis de Meras 9780813061245
$161.70Pedro 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: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South by Damian Alan Pargas 9780813038049
RRP: $58.70$46.03The 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... -
Powhatan Indian Place Names in Tidewater Virginia by Martha W McCartney 9780806320625
RRP: $36.27$32.24Apologies 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... -
Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State by Davis D Joyce 9780806138190
RRP: $39.80$27.43How 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... -
Virginia 1850 Agricultural Census, Volume 4 by Linda L Green 9780788423635
RRP: $54.60$47.50Apologies 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 -
The Moravians in North Carolina. An Authentic History by Rev Levin T Reichel 9780788422591
RRP: $42.00$37.00Apologies 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 -
Colonial Catoctin Volume II: Colonial Developmental Dynamics on or about the Potomac River at Catoctin Creek Up to Waterford by Roberto Valerio Costantino 9780788443176
RRP: $58.80$51.85Apologies 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 -
Virginia 1850 Agricultural Census, Volume 3 by Linda L Green 9780788442803
RRP: $53.55$46.62Apologies 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 -
Yellow Tavern and Beyond, From Family Letters and Journals by Dorothy Francis Atkinson 9780788441318
RRP: $69.30$61.40Apologies 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 -
Goochland County, Virginia Court Order Book 3, 1731-1735 by Ann Kicker Blomquist 9780788441233
RRP: $71.40$64.05Apologies 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 -
The Brothers Bequest: Germans in Charleston, South Carolin by Robert Alston Jones 9780788457081
$42.00Apologies 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 -
Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina, Newspapers, 1838-1860, including legal notices from burnt counties by Brent H Holcomb 9780788456299
$47.84Apologies 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