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Abandoned Northern Virginia: In the Shadow of the Nation’s Capital by Liz Roll 9781634991858
RRP: €28.55€19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634991858Author Liz RollFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLc -
Abandoned Miami: No Trespassing by Tanya Velazco 9781634990752
RRP: €28.55€18.04People associate Miami with sun and beaches, but there also exist dark corners that only a certain few will wander to. Abandoned Miami delves into the art of urban exploration, a dangerous hobby which seeks to explore the richness of history within the... -
Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island by Buddy Sullivan 9780820350165
RRP: €35.64€30.62Sapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state's greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature charac... -
Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950 by Guy Lancaster 9781682260449
RRP: €51.11€47.98Bullets and Fire is the first collection on lynching in Arkansas, exploring all corners of the state from the time of slavery up to the mid-twentieth century and covering stories of the perpetrators, victims, and those who fought against vigilante... -
The Arkansas Post of Louisiana by Morris S. Arnold 9781682260340
RRP: €54.68€34.39Arkansas Post, the first European settlement in what would become Jefferson's Louisiana, had an important mission as the only settlement between Natchez and the Illinois Country, a stretch of more than eight hundred miles along the Mississippi River. The... -
Things You Need to Hear: Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890 1980 by Margaret Jones Bolsterli 9781682260159
RRP: €32.07€19.40Things You Need to Hear gathers memories of Arkansans from all over the state with widely different backgrounds. In their own words, these people tell of the things they did growing up in the early twentieth century to get an education, what they ate,... -
Tennessee's Experience during the First World War by Michael E. Birdwell 9781621905318
RRP: €79.73€64.49“On the day that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated, Tennesseans worried about the weather,” Carole Bucy writes. Indeed, the war that began in Europe in 1914 was unimaginably remote from Tennessee—until it wasn’t... -
The Terra Incognita Reader: Early Writings from The Great Smoky Mountains by Anne Bridges 9781621905028
RRP: €45.16€27.54This reader is an essential companion to Terra Incognita: An Annotated Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934 and represents a significant contribution to scholarship on the Smokies and the region at large. Anne Bridges, Ken Wise, and Russell... -
The Mobile River by John S. Sledge 9781611174854
RRP: €35.64€29.19The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse. Inspired by the venerable Rivers of America series, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements with personal experiences and more than sixty... -
The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia by Christopher Hendricks 9781572335431
RRP: €46.35€38.02For decades historians and historical geographers have neglected the study of town life in the colonial South, simply portraying towns as the result of increasing population density. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, the first comprehensive... -
Arkansas: A Narrative History by Jeannie M. Whayne 9781557289933
RRP: €60.69€50.59Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the... -
A Place Apart: A Pictorial History of Hot Springs, Arkansas by Ray Hanley 9781557289544
RRP: €32.07€19.40Hot Springs National Park was recognized nationally in 2010 when the U.S. Mint unveiled the design of the first quarter of 56 in a series called the America the Beautiful Quarters Program. In 1903 a Chicago magazine, The 400, told its upscale readers... -
A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory by Jennifer W. Dickey 9781557286574
RRP: €51.11€30.20More than seventy-five years after its publication, Gone with the Wind remains thoroughly embedded in American culture. Margaret Mitchell's novel and the film produced by David O. Selznick have melded with the broader forces of southern history, southern... -
A Documentary History of Arkansas by C.Fred Williams 9781557286345
RRP: €32.07€26.43A Documentary History of Arkansas provides a comprehensive look at Arkansas history from the state's earliest events to the present. Here are newspaper articles, government bulletins, legislative acts, broadsides, letters, and speeches that, taken... -
Rowdy Boundaries: True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee by James L. Robertson 9781496847102
RRP: €41.59€34.25Dwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are a trove of characters with fascinating lives and histories. In Rowdy Boundaries: True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee, author... -
Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making by Tuscaloosa Tourism & Sports Commission 9780817359447
RRP: €26.12€22.54A lavishly illustrated history of this distinctive city's origins as a settlement on the banks of the Black Warrior River to its development into a thriving nexus of higher education, sports, and culture. In both its subject and its approach,... -
The Old Federal Road in Alabama: An Illustrated Guide by Kathryn H. Braund 9780817359300
RRP: €26.12€20.19A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's development. Forged through the Creek Nation by the United States, the "federal road" was developed as a... -
Alabama: The Making of an American State by Edwin C. Bridges 9780817358761
RRP: €20.17€17.95Alabama: The Making of an American State is itself a watershed event in the long and storied history of the state of Alabama. Here, presented for the first time ever in a single, magnificently illustrated volume, Edwin C. Bridges conveys the magisterial... -
The Very Worst Road: Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847 by Jeffrey C. Benton 9780817355500
RRP: €18.98€14.45The Very Worst Road was originally published by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission in 1998. ""The Very Worst Road"" contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the 'Old Federal Road'. More of a... -
Down the River: Or Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello by George W. Hooper 9780817354121
€33.58This delightful divertissement is a lampoon of dueling culture set in south eastern Alabama, penned by a cousin of the better known humorist Johnson Jones Hooper. Interestingly, George W. Hooper did not identify himself as the author, perhaps for fear... -
Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South by F Evan Nooe 9780817321741
RRP: €111.86€91.01A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity In 1823, Tennessee historian John Haywood... -
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State by William Warren Rogers 9780817319748
RRP: €61.88€51.53A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama's history to celebrate the state's bicentennial. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This... -
Alabama: The Making of an American State by Edwin C. Bridges 9780817319427
RRP: €40.40€34.50Alabama: The Making of an American State is itself a watershed event in the long and storied history of the state of Alabama. Here, presented for the first time ever in a single, magnificently illustrated volume, Edwin C. Bridges conveys the magisterial... -
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat, Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism by Glenn Feldman 9780817318666
€66.03The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman's groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party... -
Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State by Samuel L. Webb 9780817318437
€55.87This collection of biographical essays, written by 34 noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the 57 men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The... -
Sacrifice and Survival: Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South by R. Eric Platt 9780817318192
RRP: €46.35€38.02Sacrifice and Survival, recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South. R. Eric Platt examines in Sacrifice and Survival the history and evolution of Jesuit higher education in the American South and hypothesises... -
Heart of a Small Town: Photographs of Alabama Towns by Robin McDonald 9780817313753
RRP: €30.88€25.45With 126 color photographs and 30 quotes from noted Alabama storytellers, Robin McDonald creates the "mood" of small towns everywhere as they quietly retire from service. Heart of a Small Town is Robin McDonald's paean to a time when small... -
A Concise History of Kentucky by James C. Klotter 9780813191928
RRP: €21.42€16.28Kentucky is most commonly associated with horses, tobacco fields, bourbon, and coal mines. There is much more to the state, though, than stories of feuding families and Colonel Sanders' famous fried chicken. Kentucky has a rich and often compelling... -
The South and the New Deal by Roger Biles 9780813118369
€34.07The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German Jews and non-Jews. In the aftermath of World War II, many viewed... -
Dreams in the New Century: Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida's Turning Point by Gary R. Mormino 9780813069340
RRP: €41.59€34.72A leading Florida historian explores one of the state's most consequential eras. It was a time of stunning episodes of boom and bust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida's future. In this book, eminent historian Gary... -
The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights by Anders Walker 9780195181746
RRP: €51.16€46.52In "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr. asserted that "the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more... -
Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction by Clive Webb 9780195177862
RRP: €38.07€34.93Massive Resistance brings together ten essays that critically assess southern white resistance to school desegregation. The collection examines in close detail the practice of massive resistance, revealing the ideological and tactical divisions that... -
Life as It Is: Or Matters and Things in General by J. W. M. Breazeale 9781572334779
RRP: €39.21€32.36Originally published in 1842, John Will M. Breazeale’s Life as It Is is an insightful—and at times chilling—collection of essays on a variety of subjects relating to life in early East Tennessee. Though little is known about the author, a frontier lawyer... -
Seeing Spartanburg by Philip Racine 9781891885105
RRP: €17.84€16.86Racine's took him to the Library of Congress and the National Archives and to the homes and offices of many citizens of Spartanburg. Inside the pages of this book are the images of world-renowned photographers Dorothea Lange and Jack Delano and local... -
An Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook by W.K. McNeil 9781557282545
RRP: €77.35€65.52Arkansas’s rich folk tradition is shown by the variety of its manifestations: a 250-year-old ballad, an archaic method of hewing railroad crossties with a broadax, the use of poultices and toddies to treat the common cold, and swamps of evil repute are... -
Standing Before the Shouting Mob: Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public School Integration by Alexander Leidholdt 9780817354916
€33.11This book provides a vivid portrayal of one southern journalist's campaign for racial justice.Lenoir Chambers was editor of the ""Norfolk Virginian-Pilot"" during the 1950s [and] in 1954, following the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education... -
Eastern Band Of Cherokees: 1819-1900 by John R. Finger 9780870494109
RRP: €39.21€35.16This volume presents the story of the Eastern Band of Cherokees during the nineteenth century. This group – the tribal remnant in North Carolina that escaped removal in the 1830’s – found their fortitude and resilience continually tested as they... -
Ghost Signs of Arkansas by Cynthia Haas 9781557284808
RRP: €42.78€25.05From the late 1800s to the early 1950s, painted wall signs were a major mode of advertisement for both national companies and local businesses across America. Many of these artistic messages, now faded, peeling, and partially covered, still peek out from... -
Arkansas's Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest by Matthew Hild 9780826221667
RRP: €58.25€47.46This book is the first devoted entirely to an examination of working-class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers' organizations, labor unions, and (often biracial) political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues... -
Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South by Casey Cater 9780822945642
RRP: €42.25€34.77Regenerating Dixie is the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention. Instead, it was a multifaceted...