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Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South by Michael Perman 9780807872284
RRP: $79.70$74.57In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South's political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and... -
My Southern Home: The South and Its People by John Ernest 9780807872086
RRP: $90.20$82.57The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first... -
The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer by Chris Myers Asch 9780807872024
RRP: $79.70$76.00In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 18: Media by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807871430
RRP: $83.90$80.87This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South--and how the South has shaped the history of mass media. An introductory overview by Allison Graham and Sharon Monteith is... -
Ducktown: Back in Raht's Time by R. E. Barclay 9780807868492
RRP: $104.90$95.61This story of Ducktown is actually the story of the Great Copper Basin in southeastern Tennessee, one of the oldest copper districts in the country. The narrative covers the period from the removal of the Cherokees in the 1830s to the building of the... -
George S. Messersmith: Diplomat of Democracy by Jesse Stiller 9780807866207
RRP: $126.00$113.72George Strausser Messersmith (1883-1960) was a favorite of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the quintessential New Deal diplomat. A voluble, courageous, and indefatigable man, his remarkable career took him to ten posts on three continents. Figuring... -
The Cokers of Carolina: A Social Biography of a Family by George Lee Simpson 9780807879429
RRP: $104.90$95.61This is the story of the Coker family of South Carolina which for over five generations has distinguished itself in many fields. It was and is unique in its enduring personal qualities, in the range of its contributions to southern life, and in its... -
When We're Green We Grow: The Story of Home Demonstration Work in North Carolina by Jane Simpson McKimmon 9780807879207
RRP: $126.00$113.36in 1911 McKimmon became North Carolina's first state home demonstration agent. In those days the home agent was a combination of errand girl, family counselor, emergency nurse, and instructor in housekeeping techniques. This is the story of the people... -
Forsyth: The History of a County on the March by Stuart Thomas Wright 9780807878507
RRP: $126.00$114.47This is a carefully researched and completely rewritten version of Adelaide Fries's 1949 history that traced the Forsyth story from its Moravian beginnings through the joining of Winston and Salem and concluded with a forward look to Wake Forest College... -
Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-Whites: A Study of Southern Strategies by Donald J. Lisio 9780807874202
RRP: $104.90$98.72For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels. Lisio demonstrates that this view is both inaccurate and... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807859483
RRP: $83.90$80.16This book addresses manhood and womanhood in the South. This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 8: Environment by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807858561
RRP: $62.90$59.77From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 3: History by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807856918
RRP: $83.90$80.22Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"", this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 2: Geography by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807856819
RRP: $62.90$59.39The location of ""the South"" is hardly a settled or static geographic concept. Culturally speaking, are Florida and Arkansas really part of the same region? Is Texas considered part of the South or the West? This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 1: Religion by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807856741
RRP: $62.90$59.45Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United... -
Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations by David Fort Godshalk 9780807856260
RRP: $79.70$74.38A violent clash haunts American race relations for nearly a century In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least... -
Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition by Jennifer E. Brooks 9780807855782
RRP: $79.70$73.14In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia's veterans - black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union - all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In... -
Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South by Caroline Grego 9781469671352
RRP: $62.90$56.18On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands-almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled... -
The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives by Bryant Simon 9781469660264
RRP: $52.40$50.11For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was... -
Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century by Richmond F. Brown 9780803262676
$49.64Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf South. Stretching from Florida to Texas, the region witnessed the complex collision of European, African, and Native American peoples. The Gulf South offered an... -
Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 by Emily Clark 9780807858226
RRP: $90.20$82.40During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith... -
A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston by Stephanie E. Yuhl 9780807855997
RRP: $90.20$82.49Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's... -
A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee: (Called) William Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians by Laah Ceil Manatoi Elaah Tubbee 9781469641782
$37.99Okah Tubbee, originally known as Warner McCary, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, around 1810 to an enslaved African American woman. As a young man, he went by various names, including James Warner, William McCary, and simply Cary. In 1836, he left... -
North Carolina: The History of a Southern State by Hugh Talmage Lefler 9781469641508
RRP: $168.00$150.80This volume covers more than 350 years of varied and exciting life in the state of North Carolina. From Roanoke Island to the latest gubernatorial election, it presents the people and events that have made North Carolina what it is. The book is admirably... -
Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 by William A. Blair 9781469624273
RRP: $79.70$73.27Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race... -
The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South by Noeleen McIlvenna 9781469624037
RRP: $69.20$62.87For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia - the last British colony in what became the United States - enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid. The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of... -
North Carolina in the Connected Age: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy by Michael L. Walden 9781469615332
RRP: $94.40$87.57At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms... -
Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South by Vanessa Siddle Walker 9781469613840
RRP: $94.40$87.21Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as ""Professor."" He kept copious notes and records throughout... -
Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement by Steve Estes 9781469645506
RRP: $58.70$55.84Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down and the wealth... -
The Culture of Early Charleston by Frederick P. Bowes 9781469613444
RRP: $79.70$73.84In the golden days of its material prosperity, Charleston built a pattern of culture whose opulence and grace have not been duplicated elsewhere in America. No American city espoused the cause of independence with more courage and spirit. This study of... -
A State University Surveys the Humanities by Loren C. MacKinney 9781469612232
RRP: $98.60$91.69The authors conceive of the humanities not as fields of study so much as modes of study, believing that every course in a university can appropriately embody the humanistic ideal and can thus inculcate attitudes and habits of approach characteristic of... -
The Railroads of the South, 1865-1900: A Study in Finance and Control by John F. Stover 9781469612102
RRP: $98.60$92.09In the struggle for power from which emerged the modern railroad network, the southern railroads, which had originally been locally financed, came largely under the influence or control of northern financiers and institutions. The focus of this book is... -
Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture by Karen L. Cox 9781469609867
RRP: $69.20$63.69From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the... -
Southern Exposure by Peter Mitchel Wilson 9781469609447
RRP: $104.90$96.16One-time city editor of the old Raleigh Observer, the author's knowledge of men and affairs in his native state is extensive and important. Pervading this book is the charm of reminiscences of childhood before the Civil War, student days in Chapel Hill,... -
Jeffersonian Democracy in South Carolina by John H. Wolfe 9781469608624
RRP: $104.90$96.16This study discusses the effect of Jeffersonian democracy on South Carolina specifically, but, in doing so, it also discusses the part that South Carolinians played in the developments that concerned the nation as a whole. Originally published in 1940. A... -
The Prohibition Movement in Alabama, 1702-1943 by James B. Sellers 9781469608600
RRP: $104.90$96.64The author gives a complete picture of the struggle for prohibition in Alabama and of the effects of that struggle on the state from its earliest settlement down to 1943. Originally published in 1943. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring... -
The Black Patch War by John G. Miller 9781469608587
RRP: $73.40$69.76The story of the Night Riders is an important episode in the history of the Kentucky Black Tobacco Belt. In an attempt to protect their most valuable money crop from the exploitation of capitalistic trusts, law-abiding farmers organized and resorted to... -
North Carolina Boundary Disputes Involving Her Southern Line by M. L. Skaggs 9781469608532
RRP: $104.90$94.69This study discusses North Carolina's boundary problems with South Carolina and Georgia, showing the influence of such factors as divergent racial settlements, different institutions, and topographical features of the region involved. Originally... -
A History of South Carolina, 1865-1960 by Ernest McPherson Lander 9780807878965
RRP: $104.90$94.71This vigorous and concise history combines clarity of approach with keen insights on the patterns of South Carolina politics, agriculture, industry, education, transportation, and race relations. Lander's study gathers the manifold developments of the... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 19: Violence by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807872161
RRP: $62.90$60.10Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for...