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Twentieth-Century America
Av David Goldfield, Carl Abbott m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
2924 kr
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A compelling story of 20th century events and people, including those familiar and unfamiliar to students. The goal of this book is to emphasize what students need to know about America’s past to function best in the society that emerged from the 20th century. The authors accomplish this by using a …
Black, White, and Southern
Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present
Häftad, 1991
344 kr
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In Black, White, and Southern, David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South's unique culture. …
Region, Race and Cities
Interpreting the Urban South
Häftad, 1997
455 kr
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For more than twenty-five years David Goldfield has interpreted southern urban history for audiences ranging from museumgoers to academics. His love affair with the discipline dates from its birth in the late sixties, and he has been among its primary nurturers ever since. Goldfield's approach is …
Urban Growth in the Age of Sectionalism
Virginia, 1847-1861
Häftad, 1999
334 kr
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The urban growth of Virginia during the decade and a half before the Civil War has been an unjustly neglected subject in American history. With this authoritative book David Goldfield fills a long-standing gap in historical scholarship by providing much new information and a fresh perspective on …
Still Fighting the Civil War
The American South and Southern History
Häftad, 2004
256 kr
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Newcomers to the South often remark that southerners, at least white southerners, are still fighting the Civil War -- a strange preoccupation considering that the war formally ended more than one hundred and thirty-five years ago and fewer than a third of southerners today can claim an ancestor who …
Still Fighting the Civil War
The American South and Southern History
Häftad, 2013
344 kr
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In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield …
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945
Av Brandon T. Jett, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2021
534 kr
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Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have …
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945
Av Brandon T. Jett, David Goldfield
Häftad, 2023
402 kr
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Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have …
Going to Hell to Get the Devil
The 1972 Charlotte Three Case and the Freedom Struggle in a Sunbelt City
Av J. Christopher Schutz, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2024
449 kr
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The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious and dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists, who became known as the …
Spying on Students
The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South
Av Gregg L. Michel, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2024
529 kr
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Gregg L. Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition to …
1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism
Av Jody Baxter Noll, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2025
534 kr
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In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country's first statewide teachers' strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and gaining collective bargaining rights for all …
Sandhill Cities
Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia
Av J. Mark Souther, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2025
534 kr
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Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmental history, J. Mark Souther narrates urban boosters' hopes and actions in their pursuit of metropolitan stature in three midsized cities …
Southern Histories
Public, Personal, and Sacred
Inbunden, 2003
628 kr
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In this challenging look at some of the historical forces actively at work in today's South, David Goldfield draws pointed, provocative links between the "Lost Cause" mythology that emerged from the chaos of Confederate defeat, the region's reputation for intolerance, and southern evangelical …
America Aflame
How the Civil War Created a Nation
E-bok, 2011
210 kr
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In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson''s Battle Cry of Freedom . Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America''s greatest failure: the result of a …
