Library of Alabama Classics – serie
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52 produkter
Third Door
The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman
Av Ellen Tarry
Häftad, 1992
411 kr
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Unfinished Cathedral
Häftad, 1986
510 kr
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Unfinished Cathedral is the third volume of T.S. Stribling’s Southern trilogy and was originally published in 1934. The trilogy, Stribling’s greatest literary achievement, is set in and around Florence, Alabama, and spans six decades of social, economic, and political change from the Civil War and …
Old Mobile
Fort Louis De La Louisiane, 1702-11
Häftad, 1991
456 kr
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Offers to American historiography a microcosmic view of an early French colonial settlement in the United States, recreating the lives of the fort occupants in minute detail. Higginbotham has made extensive use of Spanish archives in the research of early American history.
St. Elmo
Or, Saved at Last
Häftad, 2015
314 kr
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St. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans, a June 2015 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. First published in 1866, Evans’s rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold …
They Live on the Land
Life in an Open-country Southern Community
Av Paul W. Terry, Verner M. Sims
Häftad, 1993
443 kr
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Slavery in Alabama
Häftad, 1994
514 kr
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Examines the social and economic aspects of slavery in Alabama. After a discussion of slavery under the imperial rulers of the colonial and territorial periods, Sellers focuses on the transplantation of the slavery system from the Atlantic seaboard states to Alabama.
Negro Education in Alabama
A Study in Cotton and Steel
Inbunden, 1994
444 kr
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Written by a scholar who lived and worked in both the South and the North of the US during and after the time of Jim Crow laws, this study on higher education for African-Americans in Alabama is derived from his 1937 prize-winning dissertation.
Creek War of 1813 and 1814
Av H.S. Halbert, T.H. Ball m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
397 kr
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This account of the Creek War of 1813 and 1814 includes introductory material and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in scholarship since the 1969 edition. The facsmile reproduction of the 1895 original provides an account of the Indians' point of view.
Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 Through 1860
Av Lewy Dorman
Häftad, 1995
310 kr
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Reveals the flow of political events in the state of Alabama, and the people behind them, during the critical decade preceding the American Civil War. This study explains sectional rivalries and factional politics, as well as offering statistical data, election maps and tables of election results.
Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines
Pioneer and Statesman of Early Alabama and Mississippi, 1805-43
Av George Strother Gaines, James P. Pate m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
409 kr
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This annotated edition of George Strother Gaines' ""Reminiscences"" provides a glimpse into the early history of the Mississippi-Alabama Territory and antebellum Alabama.
Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek
An Alabama Boyhood in the 1890s
Häftad, 2002
305 kr
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With a wry sense of humour and clear-eyed affection, Mitchell Garrett recalls growing up in a verdant valley in eastern Alabama. The Hatchett Creek community was his whole world and he tells of the life led by the hill folk and the happy childhood spent in this close-knit community.
Fairhope, 1894-1954
The Story of a Single Tax Colony
Av Paul E. Alyea, Blanche R. Alyea
Inbunden, 2022
354 kr
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The remarkable and improbable story of the utopian single-tax social experiment that gave rise to one of the most unique and colorful communities in Gulf Coast south.
Rich Man's War, a Poor Man's Fight
Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army
Häftad, 2003
339 kr
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At the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After these husbands, fathers, and brothers - all family breadwinners - marched off to duty, the number of indigent families in the state began to rise dramatically. Inflation, lack of transportation, a …
Julia S. Tutwiler and Social Progress in Alabama
Av Anne Gary Pannell, Dorothea E. Wyatt
Häftad, 2004
350 kr
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This biography traces the life of Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841-1916) from her childhood in Alabama through her pioneering accomplishments as a teacher, administrator, and humanitarian. Born in Tuscaloosa in 1841, Tutwiler was encouraged by her father - an educational innovator and founder of a …
Two Years on the Alabama
Häftad, 2003
456 kr
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Confederate proclamation of nationhood was backed by an energetic and reasonably well equipped land defense. Not so for its coastal and sea defenses; much of its hope of tipping the balance in its contention with the Union rested on international support, trade, and naval defense. In search of a …
Labor Revolt in Alabama
The Great Strike of 1894
Av Robert D. Ward, William Warren Rogers
Häftad, 2003
297 kr
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Written as a case study of the causes of the Alabama miner's strike in 1894, this book explains how during an economic depression period, the strong trade union of the United Mineworkers of Alabama was founded and it was this that became instrumental in the coal miners and railway worker's strike. …
Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation
Häftad, 2004
350 kr
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Ante-bellum Alabama: Town and Country was originally published in 1957 to give the reader insight into important facets of Alabama's antebellum history. Presented in the form of case studies from the pre-Civil War period, the book deals with a city, a town, a planter's family, rural social life, …
Secessionist Impulse
Alabama and Mississippi in 1860
Häftad, 2004
455 kr
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This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supplies data on the property holdings and occupations of the elected representatives and finds the secessionists to be young, probably lawyers who were …
Road to Wildcat
A Tale of Mountain Alabama
Häftad, 2004
478 kr
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The Road to Wildcat recounts the travels in North Alabama in the mid-1920s of Eleanor Risley (suffering from diabetes), her asthmatic husband, Pierre, their dog, John, and a Chinese wheelbarrow named Sisyphus that held their travel goods. Advised to make the walking tour for improvement of their …
Filibusters and Expansionists
Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
Av Frank Lawrence Owsley, Gene A. Smith
Häftad, 2004
339 kr
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Describing filibuster activities in both Florida and Texas, American efforts to seize Indian lands, operations against a free black fort in Florida and Andrew Jackson's adventures in Florida, this book adds to the history and historiography of antebellum foreign policy. The authors present the …
August Reckoning
Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama
Av William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Häftad, 2004
344 kr
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During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions - like those in other southern states - were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive …
Black Education in Alabama, 1865-1901
Häftad, 2009
347 kr
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This history of black education in post-Civil War Alabama illustrates the history of goals in post-secondary institutions and the appropriateness of vocational or liberal arts training. It traces the role of state legislation and administrative policy and analyzes efforts of black educators to …
Stephen S. Renfroe
Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff
Av William Warren Rogers, Ruth Pruitt
Häftad, 2005
290 kr
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Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi
A Series of Sketches
Häftad, 2006
339 kr
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Joseph Glover Baldwin left his native Virginia as a young man in 1836 for the booming frontier of the Old Southwest, settling first in DeKalb, Mississippi, and then in 1839 in Gainesville and later Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama. Blessed with a lively imagination and a good library, Baldwin …
Life of Andrew Jackson
Av John Reid, John Henry Easton m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
692 kr
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Original copies of the first, 1817, edition of this work are so rare that even the Library of Congress does not have an undamaged copy. Consequently scholars and students of Jackson have had to rely on later, incomplete or bowdlerized editions. It is therefore all the more valuable to have Owsley's …
