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The Appalachian Experience by Barry M. Buxton 9781469636719
RRP: $41.90$39.00The proceedings from the 1983 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Melinda B. Wagner, Allen Batteau and Archie Green; William Philliber; Susan Emley Keefe; Loyal Jones; Richard Drake; John H. Mongle; Michael Henson; Nancy Carol... -
Contemporary Appalachia: In Search of a Usable Past by Carl Ross 9781469636788
RRP: $41.90$35.01The proceedings from the 1986 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Carl Ross; Ron Eller; Howard Dorgan; Ricky Cox; Becky Eller; Sally Bruce; Bennie Sinclair; Paul Salstrom; Dennis Soden; Parks Lanier; John McLaughlin; Betsy Covington;... -
Eminent Charlotteans: Twelve Historical Profiles from North Carolina's Queen City by Scott Syfert 9781476666495
RRP: $46.18$37.74Eminent Charlotteans tells the story of twelve individuals who developed and contributed to the history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, from its earliest Colonial period, through the present day.Book InformationISBN 9781476666495Author Scott... -
The Impact of Institutions in Appalachia by Jim Lloyd 9781469636870
RRP: $41.90$35.01The proceedings from the 1985 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Anne Campbell; Loyal Jones; David Williams; Grace Edwards; Charlotte Ross; James Gifford; Howard Dorgan; Ron Willoughby; Mike Yarrow; Richard Straw; Robert J. Higgs;... -
Trouble in Goshen: Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South by Fred C. Smith 9781617039560
RRP: $126.00$118.04The Great Depression emboldened Americans to tolerate radical experimentation in search of solutions to seemingly overwhelming economic problems. Amongst the thorniest of those was rural southern poverty. In Trouble in Goshen, Fred C. Smith focuses on... -
Appalachia / America by Wilson Somerville 9781469636900
RRP: $41.90$39.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 3, 1991: Southern Appalachia and the South: A Region Within a Region by John C. Inscoe 9781469636962
RRP: $41.90$40.26This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by John C. Inscoe; John Alexander Williams; Richard B. Drake; Richard Blaustein; H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood; David B. White; Milton Ready; Paul Salstrom; Benita... -
Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 2, 1990: Transformation of Life and Labor in Appalachia by Ronald L. Lewis 9781469636993
RRP: $41.90$40.19This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Gordon B. McKinney; Jean Haskell Speer; Rodger Cunningham; Thomas A. Arcury; Rhonda England; Roger A. Lohmann; Richard P. Mulcahy; Kate Black; Beth Degutis; Garry... -
That D----d Brownlow: Being a Saucy and Malicious Description of Fighting Parson William Gannaway Brownlow by Steve Humphrey 9781469638225
RRP: $50.30$49.39Published in 1978, this book tells the story of William Gannaway Brownlow, a Methodist minister, Whig politician, author of a Civil War bestseller, and anti-Confederate who documented the trials and tribulations of pro-Union mountaineers in east... -
Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina by Thomas J. Brown 9781469642277
RRP: $83.90$69.76In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and... -
Endgame for Empire: British-Creek Relations in Georgia and Vicinity, 1763-1776 by John T. Juricek 9780813060743
$161.70Too easily we forget that the process of European colonization was not simply a matter of armed invaders elbowing themselves into position to take charge. As John Juricek reminds us, the road to revolution was paved in part by complicated negotiations... -
So the Heffners Left McComb by Hodding Carter 9781496807489
RRP: $228.90$207.35On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. ""Red"" Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten years. They never returned. In the... -
Wading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Amy Lemco 9781496847164
RRP: $205.80$186.40Wading 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... -
Murder in Manteo: Seeking Justice for Stacey Stanton by John Railey 9781467155700
RRP: $52.48$34.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155700Author John RaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
Gravely Concerned: Southern Writers' Graves by John Soward Bayne 9780984259847
RRP: $52.40$44.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984259847Author John Soward BayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 458g -
History of Washington County, Georgia by Ella Mitchell 9780893087302
RRP: $59.85$45.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893087302Author Ella MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Southern Historical PressPublisher Southern Historical PressWeight(grams) 272g -
This Day in North Carolina History by Ansley Herring Wegner 9780865264724
RRP: $73.40$44.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264724Author Ansley Herring WegnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office... -
Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century South by Keira V. Williams 9780820365572
$59.96Scholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots gender politics in the South. Why Any Woman advances this line of historical inquiry by focusing on one of the most productive sites of... -
Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 by Theda Perdue 9780820340357
$50.51The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world's fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. Theda Perdue uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and... -
Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South Since Reconstruction by Craig Thompson Friend 9780820332321
$62.14This book covers topics from Cherokee chiefs to womanless weddings. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection ""Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South"" (Georgia, 2004), ""Southern... -
Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City by Richard Campanella 9780807178546
RRP: $71.30$47.42In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to "the world's toughest drainage problem," renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography,... -
Fonville Winans' Louisiana: Politics, People, and Places by Cyril E. Vetter 9780807165324
RRP: $81.80$65.60This remarkable book, first published twenty years ago, continues to offer a singular window into the customs, politics, and places of twentieth-century Louisiana. This dazzling collection of landscapes and portraits drawn from the lifework of... -
Facts of Reconstruction, Race, and Politics by Eric Anderson 9780807116913
$42.02Thirty years after the publication of John Hope Franklin's influential interpretative essay Reconstruction: After the Civil War, ten distinguished scholars have contributed to a new appraisal of Reconstruction scholarship. Recognising Professor... -
Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty by Jace Weaver 9781469670645
RRP: $62.90$58.21Red Clay, 1835 envelops students in the treaty negotiations between the Cherokee National Council and representatives of the United States at Red Clay, Tennessee. As pressure mounts on the Cherokee to accept treaty terms, students must confront issues... -
South Writ Large: Stories from the Global South by Amanda B. Bellows 9781469668567
RRP: $41.90$38.75South Writ Large: Stories from the Global South is an anthology of personal essays, articles, poetry, and artwork that explores the culture of the U.S. South and its extensive connections to other regions of the world. The collection is composed of... -
North Carolina's Revolutionary Founders by Jeff Broadwater 9781469651200
RRP: $69.20$63.95This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America. It includes stories of how men who stood together to fight the British soon chose opposing... -
Painting with a Comet's Tail by Harley E. Jolley 9781469642161
$34.52Civilized man has been prone to conjure up a maxim or saying to reflect the prevailing philosophy of the day. Two of those familiar favorites readily apply to the world famous Blue Ridge Parkway, ""Beauty is in the eye of the... -
New Voyages to North Carolina: Reinterpreting North Carolina History by Larry E. Tise 9781469634586
$206.33New Voyages to North Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have... -
Negro Leadership in a Southern City by M. Elaine Burgess 9780807896310
RRP: $104.90$94.71After presenting the theoretical background of her study, Burgess discusses the geography and ecology of region and city and examines the class and institutional structure of the sub-community. She employs a variety of methods to identify the black... -
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains by Steven E. Nash 9781469645544
RRP: $69.20$65.29In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent... -
The Country Life of the Nation by Wilson Gee 9781469613604
RRP: $98.60$91.69The Institute of Public Affairs held at the University of Virginia in 1929 brought together the group represented in this volume. The fundamental importance of the American farm life problem calls for serious questioning and planning for its relief on... -
My Beloved Zebulon: The Correspondence of Zebulon Baird Vance and Harriett Newell Espy by Elizabeth Roberts Cannon 9780807896334
RRP: $104.90$95.91The 121 letters published here for the first time comprise the existing prenuptial correspondence of Vance and his first wife. Primarily love letters, they reveal the salient traits of two high-minded beings and also offer fascinating glimpses into the... -
Agricultural Developments in North Carolina, 1783-1860 by Cornelius Oliver Cathey 9780807850381
RRP: $126.00$112.14In the introduction of new farming implements alone, this period witnessed revolutionary changes in which North Carolina had a significant part. To note the developments of this nature, rather than to record the history of the state's agriculture in this... -
Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South by R. Scott Huffard Jr. 9781469652818
RRP: $73.40$45.82After the upheavals of the Civil War and Reconstruction shattered the plantation economy of the Old South, white southerners turned to the railroad to reconstruct capitalism in the region. Examining the rapid growth, systemization, and consolidation of... -
The Practice and Politics of Fiat Finance: North Carolina in the Confederation, 1783-1789 by James R. Morrill 9780807836187
RRP: $104.90$94.82This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolina's public financial policy during the confederation. The study emphasizes the relationship between domestic and state-funded financial policies and... -
Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763 by Daniel J. Tortora 9781469621227
RRP: $79.70$72.79In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and... -
The Southern Humanities Conference and Its Constituent Societies by J. O. Bailey 9780807868485
RRP: $73.40$68.38Bulletin number two of the Southern Humanities Conference presents an account of the founding of the conference, the projects in which it is engaged, and a history of the societies represented in the conference. It is designed to inform the reader of the... -
Georgia Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South by Tim S. Boyd 9780813061474
$65.67The precipitous fall of the Democratic Party in southern politics during the latter half of the twentieth century has sparked a rich scholarly debate. Many theories have been put forward to explain the sea change that swept Democrats out of office and... -
Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920-1970 by Anne Stefani 9780813054650
$54.50Stefani redefines the proverbial `southern lady' with a close look at over fifty white, anti-racist women. Concentrating on traits that linked these women across two generations, Unlikely Dissenters provides the first comprehensive study of how these... -
La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence by Viviana Diaz Balsera 9780813060118
$172.96Commemorating Juan Ponce de Leon's landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida, this ambitious volume explores five centuries of Hispanic presence in the New World peninsula, reflecting on the breadth and depth of encounters between the different lands and...