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South Carolina: A Short History, 1520-1948 by David Duncan Wallace 9780807868911
RRP: $178.50$166.57From the beginning, South Carolina's history has been the story of the growth of a low-country aristocracy of wealth and political power and the gradual emergence of its opposition by the yeoman up country. Few states offer such rich materials for a... -
Wiley Buck and Other Stories of the Concord Community by Henry M. Wagstaff 9780807868324
RRP: $83.90$75.33A gifted teller of tales sketches a lively picture of his boyhood in the old tobacco section of Person County, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia line. All the white grown-ups of the boy's childhood were former slaveholders and former soldiers... -
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion by Peter S. Carmichael 9780807861851
RRP: $79.70$75.92This book deals with coming of age in the 1850s and '60s. Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 14: Folklife by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807859896
RRP: $83.90$79.40This book features the dynamic and divergent heart of southern culture. Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent,... -
The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South by Laura F. Edwards 9780807859322
RRP: $90.20$84.50This book deals with the changes in the legal logic of slavery, race, and gender. In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry by James C. Cobb 9780807859094
RRP: $62.90$60.71This title shows making a living in the South. Volume II of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their... -
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War by Jeanette Keith 9780807855621
RRP: $90.20$82.07During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local... -
Public Education in the South Today and Tomorrow: A Statistical Survey by John A. Griffin 9780807897911
RRP: $83.90$75.71This book summarizes some of the basic data of the framework through which southern schooling must be seen if a proper understanding of the problems of southern public education is to be achieved. It provides a brief handbook of basic data on southern... -
The Negro in North Carolina, 1876-1894 by Frenise A. Logan 9780807897126
RRP: $104.90$95.26This narrative of the political, economic, and social activities of the Negro during the years from 1876 to 1894 contributes substantially to a neglected phase of state history by closely examining the laws, the penal codes, the working and living... -
Passing of the Mill Village: Revolution in a Southern Institution by Harriet L. Herring 9780807896839
RRP: $83.90$75.85This is the story of a revolution--the factors influencing management's decision to sell, the extent of the sales, procedures followed in the various sales, psychological effects upon the worker, effects upon labor-management relations, the reaction of... -
The Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, 1865 - 1872 by Martin Abbott 9780807896006
RRP: $83.90$76.23Abbott's book deals with the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War. He records the difficulties that resulted from the urgency of the needs the bureau... -
Selective Service in North Carolina in World War II by Spencer B. King 9780807878910
RRP: $126.00$116.42This book contains the story of the long-time planning for a system of manpower procurement for the armed services; the account of the manner in which officials attacked the problem; and an evaluation of the Selective Service system in the state, with... -
Into the Main Stream: A Survey of Best Practices in Race Relations in the South by Charles S. Johnson 9780807878842
RRP: $126.00$113.61Here is a new approach to race relations in the South. One of the fundamental purposes of the authors is the presentation of programs reflecting the better practices that are often ignored by the press in favor of a noisy antiracial demagoguery... -
North Carolina Votes by Donald R. Matthews 9780807874318
RRP: $104.90$95.70Here for the first time in one handy volume are the statistics, presented in 304 tables, of the general election returns that show the vote in each of the hundred counties for the president of the United States, 1868-1960, the governor of North Carolina,... -
Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860: An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order by Michael O'Brien 9780807872680
RRP: $90.20$83.14Michael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual... -
The Clinchfield Railroad: The Story of a Trade Route Across the Blue Ridge Mountains by William Way Jr. 9780807872482
RRP: $98.60$92.13The story of the building of the Clinchfield Railroad reflects the dominant elements that have shaped the economic history of an important section of the southeastern states. It is the history of continuous efforts in a venture that was to be the... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 16: Sports and Recreation by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807871737
RRP: $83.90$80.43What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their ""leisure,"" reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This... -
Keepers of the Past by Clifford L. Lord 9780807869000
RRP: $104.90$94.27The growing interest in state and local history has created a need for a popular treatment of historical agencies. Seventeen authors tell the story through a series of biographical sketches of the leading figures in the evolution of historical societies,... -
North Carolina Today by Marjorie N. Bond 9780807868720
RRP: $126.00$114.14In words and photographs, the authors provide a picture of North Carolina as it was and as the authors envision it might be tomorrow when the people of the state have learned how to put their resources to the best use. Written especially for teenagers,... -
The Making of Massive Resistance: Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954-1956 by Robbins L. Gates 9780807867600
RRP: $104.90$95.09In this book, Gates brings before the reader persons and features unique to racial politics in the commonwealth of Virginia. He deals with the turbulent days that followed school desegregation decisions in 1954 and 1955 and with the emergence of the... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 12: Music by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807859087
RRP: $69.20$67.33This is the first comprehensive stand-alone reference to music in the South.Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk... -
The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 by Warren M. Billings 9780807858523
RRP: $90.20$84.69This important teaching tool and research volume brings together more than 200 period documents on topics including the settlement of Jamestown, the structure of government and society, labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon's Rebellion... -
The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South by Michael Ayers Trotti 9780807858424
RRP: $90.20$82.57This book covers mass media and the sensational crime.Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, ""The Body in the Reservoir"" uses these gripping stories of crime to... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807858400
RRP: $83.90$78.33When the original ""Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry. Food has always been central to southern culture, but the past twenty years have... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 6: Ethnicity by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807858233
RRP: $62.90$60.50Transcending familiar categories of ""black"" and ""white,"" this volume of ""The New Encyclopedia"" complicates and enriches our understanding of ""southernness"" by... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 5: Language by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807858066
RRP: $62.90$59.16The fifth volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" explores language and dialect in the South, including English, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant... -
Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945 by Pippa Holloway 9780807857649
RRP: $69.20$64.51In the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint. In order to reaffirm... -
Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance by Daniel Joseph Singal 9780807857564
RRP: $126.00$114.20Rupert Vance is known as one of the principal developers of the intellectual apparatus of regional sociology, and he observed and commented for some fifty years on the problems and progress of his native region. In these wide-ranging articles, Vance... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807856925
RRP: $62.90$60.29This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been... -
Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia by William A. Link 9780807856611
RRP: $90.20$83.14The role of slaves and free blacks in the politics of secession An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves and some 50,000 free blacks, Virginia witnessed a uniquely volatile convergence of slave resistance and electoral politics in the 1850s... -
Along the Kanawha River by Joseph M. Phillips 9780738599458
RRP: $46.18$32.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738599458Author Joseph M. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g -
Along the Miami River by Paul S George 9780738598888
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Lincoln County by Ralph D Triplett 9780738598253
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Graham by Amy Edwards Barr 9780738598130
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Kings Mountain by Sharon Stack 9780738597973
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Marion by Kim Clark 9780738597935
RRP: $46.18$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738597935Author Kim ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g -
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad by David A. Guillaudeu 9780738597928
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Historic Forsyth County by Michael Bricker 9780738597874
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Greene County by Greene County Historical Society 9780738597836
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Richmond Landmarks by Katarina M. Spears 9780738597621
RRP: $46.18$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738597621Author Katarina M. SpearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g