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In Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee explores the long history of Richmond, Virginia's iconic Monument Avenue. As a network of important memorials to Confederate leaders located in the former capitol of the Confederacy, Monument...

Kentucky 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...

Thousands of years ago, the land that would become Northern Kentucky emerged above sea level when a large portion of the continental plate bulged upward. Today, the region rests on the crest of that uplift, known as the Cincinnati Arch. And just like the...

The 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...

Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738566047Author Summer BozemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 299g

In "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 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...

Racine'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...

In 1835, Winston and Salem was a well-ordered, bucolic, and attractive North Carolina town. A visitor could walk up Main Street from the village square and get a sense of the quiet Moravian community that had settled here. Yet, over the next...

Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels, and feuds. However, the years following Reconstruction witnessed the creation of new forms of mob violence...

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia examines the experiences of five Anglican minister/missionaries who came to Georgia between 1735 and 1738, including John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, on a mission to minister to residents and...

The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin), who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis of this work is that his life and career helped to...

"In Abandoned Georgia: Traveling the Backroads, photographer Leland Kent showcases fourteen abandoned locations from across the state. Whether it's a small six-room school or a sprawling defunct religious community, they are all left for nature to take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625450876Author James Anthony SchnurFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 295g

Here is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans into the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, this second edition surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style...

No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352079Author Saralee StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 430g

The Moravian Journals of Georgia, 1734-1737: From Herrnhut to Savannah contains the translated journals of four Moravians who traveled to and lived in the British colony of Georgia between 1734 and 1737. Three of the journal authors were leading figures...

Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557091789Author Robert RhettFormat HardbackPage Count 30Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 91g

The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city's inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad terminal, train manufacturer, and even livestock hub. At one time it was the Gulf South's St. Louis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149266Author Sherman CarmichaelFormat 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 9781467108720Author Dr MatthewsFormat 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 9781467106429Author Gregory LeonardFormat 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 9781467106153Author Thad Hillis CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9781467144414Author Dr CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467151269Author Christopher P SemtnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467105668Author Chase Norman BeggsFormat 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 9781467150668Author Sharon PajkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467106535Author Sandra Martin ParhamFormat 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 9781467106122Author Laura SeifertFormat 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 9781467109420Author Bob GrenierFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144285Author Patrick Evans-HyltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147996Author Bill HaltomFormat 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 9781467107761Author Jim McKeeFormat 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 9781467146166Author Geoffrey C FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 157mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146432Author Richard CoxFormat 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 9781467149839Author Jon L GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 150mm * 226mm * 5mm