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Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era by Paul Harvey 9780807858141
RRP: £37.95£35.36In 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: History from Below by Jeffrey Morrison
RRP: £18.99£15.43Atlanta 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... -
Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island Dwayne W. Pickett 9781467141918
RRP: £21.99£7.00Apologies 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 Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches by Adam Fairclough 9780813056623
£31.67The 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... -
Safety Harbor by Laura Kepner
RRP: £23.99£14.56Apologies 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)... -
A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals by Tony M Kail 9781467137393
RRP: £21.99£14.29Apologies 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 *... -
New Orleans Jazz by Edward J Branley 9781467111713
RRP: £21.99£15.61Apologies 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)... -
Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940 by Kodi A. Roberts 9780807160503
£36.78The 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... -
Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond by Virginia L. H. Davis 9780806315782
RRP: £39.16£34.90Apologies 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... -
A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 by Noeleen McIlvenna 9781469642536
RRP: £27.95£27.44Historians 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... -
Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life by Roger Stolle 9781467141574
RRP: £21.99£14.53Apologies 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 *... -
Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South by Angela Pulley Hudson 9780807871218
RRP: £37.95£34.70This 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... -
Gumbo Ya-YA by Lyle Saxon
RRP: £23.99£17.63Apologies 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)... -
Lone Star Nation by H. W. Brands
RRP: £17.99£13.16Apologies 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 *... -
When Miners March by William C. Blizzard 9781604863000
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies 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 -
Three Years in Mississippi by James Meredith 9781496821010
RRP: £109.00£101.35On 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... -
The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton:: A High-Flying Life from Tennessee to Timbuktu by Scott R Williams 9781626197206
RRP: £19.99£14.45Apologies 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)... -
Unti Nonfiction on Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
RRP: £22.00£14.98From 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,... -
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko
RRP: £22.00£17.90This 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... -
Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities by Richard Follett 9781421419404
RRP: £18.50£16.58In 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... -
Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: A Contribution to the History and Genealogy of Colonial Families of Rockingham County, Virginia. Some Pioneers to Old by J Houston Harrison 9780788419751
£33.67Apologies 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 -
The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City by Dianne Guenin-Lelle 9781496820303
RRP: £24.95£23.45What 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... -
Rock-Em, Sock-Em, Travelin' Sideways Dirt Show by Gary L Parker 9781935186694
RRP: £24.95£15.78Apologies 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: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans by Clyde Woods 9780820350929
£35.33Development 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... -
Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies by Claudius K. Fergus 9780807149881
£42.77Skillfully 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,... -
Guide to the Historic French Quarter by Andy Peter Antippas 9781626192805
RRP: £14.99£9.31Apologies 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 *... -
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom by James Green
RRP: £14.99£13.10Apologies 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 -
The Swing Years by Burt Korall 9780195326888
RRP: £19.99£15.63In 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... -
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida by Gary R. Mormino 9780813033082
RRP: £26.95£20.47Apologies 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: French Colonial New Orleans Shannon Lee Dawdy 9780226138428
RRP: £24.00£23.03"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... -
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose 9781501125379
RRP: £18.99£11.75Apologies 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... -
Captain John Smith, 1579-1631 by Charles Dudley Warner 9781018218403
£26.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point by Rory McGovern 9780813951904
RRP: £98.00£97.63The 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... -
The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism by Leigh Anne Duck 9780820334189
£31.81How 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... -
Captain Jones's Wormslow: A Historical, Archaeological, and Architectural Study of an Eighteenth-Century Plantation Site near Savannah, Georgia by William M. Kelsoe 9780820332536
£25.95During 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: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain by Mikko Saikku 9780820326733
£31.81This 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... -
American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond by Gregg D. Kimball 9780820325460
£31.81As 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... -
Marching in Step: Masculinity, Citizenship and the Citadel in Post-World War II America by Alexander Macaulay 9780820338217
£30.83Combining 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... -
The Leo Frank Case by Leonard Dinnerstein 9780820331799
£29.85This 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... -
Records of Dettingen Parish, Prince William County, Virginia, Vestry Book, 1745-1785, Minutes of Meetings of the Overseers of the Poor, 1788-1802, Ind by Inc Historic Dumfries Virginia 9780788444500
RRP: £16.50£15.19Apologies 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