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In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, ""Freedom's Coming"" puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology...

Atlanta Underground presents a city history through the lens of its buried and paved-over urban landscape. Atlanta has been built, rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt so many times that it has created an artificial surface dozens of feet above the original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141918Author Dwayne W. PickettFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

The chaotic years after the Civil War are often seen as a time of uniquely American idealism - a revolutionary attempt to rebuild the nation that paved the way for the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. But Adam Fairclough rejects this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108522Author Laura KepnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467137393Author Tony KailFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467111713Author Edward J. BranleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806315782Author Virginia L. H. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141574Author Roger StolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

This book uses travel as a lens to observe the Creek world turning into the Old South. In ""Creek Paths and Federal Roads"", Angela Pulley Hudson offers a new understanding of the development of the American South by examining travel within and between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455627271Author Lyle SaxonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030705Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863000Author William C. BlizzardFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 567g

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626197206Author R. Scott WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

From the author of Queen Sugar-now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay-comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems,...

This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies...

In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788419751Author J Houston HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 714Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 812g

What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935186694Author Gary L ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.Publisher Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the...

Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626192805Author Andy Peter AntippasFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802124654Author James GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

In the 1930s swing music was everywhere--on radio, recordings, and in the great ballrooms, hotels, theatres, and clubs. Perhaps at no other time were drummers more central to the sound and spirit of jazz. Benny Goodman showcased Gene Krupa. Jimmy Dorsey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorGary Mormino, Duckwall Professor of History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, is the coauthor of The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and...

"Building the Devil's Empire" is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans' early years, tracing the town's development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy's picaresque account of New Orleans' wild...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501125379Author Chris RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

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The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil WarRace, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and...

How southern writers challenged the nation's view of their region's exceptionalism? How could liberalism and apartheid coexist for decades in our country, as they did during the first half of the twentieth century? This study looks at works by such...

During the fall of 1968 and the summer of 1969, William Kelso conducted archaeological excavations at the site of eighteenth-century ruins at Wormslow, near Savannah, Georgia. Historical records indicated that the ruins were the remains of Fort Wimberly,...

This Delta, This Land is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta - the first one to place the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. The Delta, the floodplain between two great rivers in the...

As a city of the upper South intimately connected to the northeastern cities, the southern slave trade, and the Virginia countryside, Richmond embodied many of the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century America. Gregg D. Kimball expands the usual scope...

Combining the nuanced perspective of an insider with the critical distance of a historian, Alexander Macaulay examines The Citadel's reactions to major shifts in postwar life, from the rise of the counterculture to the demise of the Cold War. The Citadel...

This book offers a classic study of one of the most infamous outbursts of anti-Semitism in the United States.The events surrounding the 1913 murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788444500Author Inc Historic Dumfries VirginiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 218g