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Tobacco Road
A Novel
Häftad, 1995
337 kr
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Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of …
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Av Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
698 kr
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In this widely heralded book first published in 1986, four historians consider the popularly held explanations for southern defeat—state-rights disputes, inadequate military supply and strategy, and the Union blockade—undergirding their discussion with a chronological account of the war's progress. …
Hard-Boiled Virgin
A Novel
Häftad, 1993
684 kr
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When it first appeared in 1926, The Hard-Boiled Virgin was hailed by novelist James Branch Cabell as "the most brilliant, the most candid, the most civilized, and most profound book yet written by any American woman". It is a semiautobiographical novel about Atlantan Katharine Faraday, who, after …
Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles
Häftad, 1981
302 kr
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Since it first appeared in 1956, Mrs. Vanstory's rich narrative of the barrier islands from Ossabaw to Cumberland—and the mainland towns along the way—has become the standard popular history of Georgia's golden coast.Thoroughly revised and with over forty new illustrations, this edition traces the …
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
Av Frances Anne Kemble, John A. Scott
Häftad, 1984
348 kr
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Originally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble's Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the "peculiar institution" and of life in the antebellum …
Caty
A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene
Av John F. Stegeman, Janet A. Stegeman
Häftad, 1985
457 kr
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Throughout her life, Catharine Littlefield Greene struggled to clear her own place as an individual within a society that was itself fighting for its place as an independent nation. In Caty, John and Janet Stegeman follow the life of a woman whose spirit and determination led her far beyond the …
Drums and Shadows
Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes
Häftad, 1986
510 kr
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Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks living on the Georgia coast in the 1930s. In the later years of the depression, members of the Georgia Writers' Project visited and interviewed blacks, …
Freedom's Shore
Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen
Häftad, 1986
410 kr
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For the first time since the early years of the American republic, the period following emancipation held out the promise of a true colorblind democracy. The freed slaves hoped for forty acres and a mule by which they could work as small farmers, erect houses, establish families, and live free from …
Step It Down
Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage
Av Bess Lomax Hawes, Bessie Jones
Häftad, 1987
410 kr
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Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances and singing plays. These songs and games, recorded in Step It Down by …
Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee
A Novel
Häftad, 1988
368 kr
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Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black life in the Deep South from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with bullwhips to the moment when the …
Grandissimes
A Novel
Häftad, 1988
607 kr
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Set in the mysterious shadowed city of New Orleans in the years immediately following the Louisiana Purchase, George Washington Cable's classic novel of the Old South traces the declining fortunes of a family and their society as they struggle with long-standing divisions of race and class and with …
Baby Sweet's
A Novel
Häftad, 1988
368 kr
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Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black life in the Deep South from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with bullwhips to the moment when the …
He Included Me
The Autobiography of Sarah Rice
Av Sarah Rice, Louise H. Westling
Inbunden, 1989
648 kr
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A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, He Included Me weaves together the story of a black family—eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister—and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to …
Creation of Modern Georgia
Häftad, 1990
527 kr
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An astute and stimulating account of the people and forces that shaped the development of Georgia and, by implication, other areas of the South, The Creation of Modern Georgia is a provocative reinterpretation of the transition from the Old South to the New. Rejecting previous analyses, Bartley …
Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant
James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History
Häftad, 1990
512 kr
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In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart, and many lesser commanders. But while the tarnish on such statues has done nothing to color the reputation of those great leaders, there remains …
Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts
Häftad, 1990
594 kr
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Covering basketry, musical instruments, wood carving, quilting, pottery, boatbuilding, blacksmithing, architecture, and graveyard decoration, John Vlach seeks to trace and substantiate African influences in the traditional arts and crafts of black Americans. It is a widespread tradition, he …
Storytellers
Folktales and Legends from the South
Av John A. Burrison, John A. Burrison
Häftad, 1991
607 kr
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Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse and inventive as the tellers themselves.Edited and introduced by John …
Okefinokee Album
Häftad, 1990
340 kr
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Based on the photographs and writings of Francis Harper, a naturalist who visited the Okefinokee Swamp repeatedly between 1912 and 1951, Okefinokee Album recalls life in the "land of trembling earth" before the outside world encroached in the 1940s. Filled with profiles of the swamp dwellers, their …
Katherine Anne Porter
A Life
Av Joan Givner
Häftad, 1991
685 kr
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My life has been incredible, Katherine Anne Porter used to say, "I don't believe a word of it." Author of the best-selling novel, Ship of Fools, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her short stories, Porter was both the first lady of American letters and a woman whose …
Making of a Southerner
Häftad, 1992
543 kr
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Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin was born into a prominent Georgia family and raised in a southern society intent on preserving the economic and racial status quo. But as a young woman working with the poor in the sand hills of South Carolina, she began to question what she had been taught. In The Making …
Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia
A Splendid Failure
Häftad, 1992
477 kr
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This widely hailed study examines the reasons behind the quick demise of Radical Reconstruction in Georgia. Edmund L. Drago shows that a primary factor was, ironically, the extraordinary fairness on the part of the state's black leaders in dealing with their former masters.Lacking the sizable and …
South and the Southerner
Av Ralph McGill
Häftad, 1992
460 kr
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A wide-ranging blend of autobiography and history, The South and the Southerner is one prominent newspaperman's statement on his region, its heritage, its future, and his own place within it. Ralph McGill (1898-1969), the longtime editor and later publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, was one of a …
Cherokee Removal
Before and After
Häftad, 1992
426 kr
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In the hope of avoiding removal from their much coveted homelands in the Southeast, the Cherokees began to adopt broad aspects of Anglo-American culture in the early nineteenth century. Despite their general acquiescence to government policies and their efforts to fulfill the expectations of white …
Better a Dinner of Herbs
Häftad, 1992
495 kr
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First published in 1950, Better a Dinner of Herbs is a compellingly dramatic tale of twisted, often violent human relationships. Taking its title from a biblical passage dealing with the power of love and hate within a household, the novel counterbalances its grim narrative with a poetic prose that …
Flannery O'Connor's South
Av Robert Coles
Häftad, 1993
503 kr
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Flannery O'Connor's South offers a forceful analysis, both literary and philosophical, of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. First published in 1980, this study draws upon Robert Coles' personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his …
Ghosts and Goosebumps
Ghost Stories, Tall Tales, and Superstitions
Av Jack Solomon, Jack Solomon m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
368 kr
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Ghosts and Goosebumps is a rich collection of folktales and superstitions that capture the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. In its pages one can glimpse the long-lost horse-and-buggy times, when people sat up all night with the dead and dying, hoed and handpicked cotton, drew …
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?
The People of Johns Island South Carolina—Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs
Av Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
594 kr
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Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forebears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their …
Hawk and the Sun
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
495 kr
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Set in the small-town, pre-civil rights South, The Hawk and the Sun is the story of one day in the life of Dandelion, a physically impaired man who is the sole black resident in the town of Tilden.Years before, the birth of a mixed-race child to a white prostitute had precipitated an outpouring of …
God's Little Acre
A Novel
Häftad, 1995
335 kr
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Like Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of gold. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its …
Segregation
The Inner Conflict in the South
Häftad, 1994
300 kr
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First published in 1956, Segregation is a collection of Robert Penn Warren's informal conversations with southerners in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Warren, who in his own writings often explored the theme of race in American life, traveled through his native region to talk …
