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44 produkter
Woman Rice Planter
Av Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle, Charles Joyner m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
283 kr
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Ersatz in the Confederacy
Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront
Häftad, 1993
254 kr
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Seed from Madagascar
Häftad, 1993
225 kr
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Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston battery, there was rice and there were slaves--the twin pillars upon which colonial Carolina wealth was built. But by the Civil War both began to crumble, along with the planter aristocracy they supported. Seed from Madagascar …
William Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water
Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wild-Cat, Deer, and Bear Hunting, Etc
Häftad, 1994
267 kr
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Slave Trading in the Old South
Av Frdeeric Bancroft, Frederic Bancroft m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
283 kr
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First published in 1931, the author exposes the commercial aspects of slave trading, including the ""breeding"" and ""rearing"" of slaves for sale to Western territories. The author shows antebellum slavery to be commercial, exploitative and cruel rather than a benevolent ""peculiar institution
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy
Av Albert Burton Moore, John S. Sproat m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
210 kr
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Using conscription to illustrate a central paradox of the Confederacy, this work examines the system's daily operations, troublesome substitution, and exemption procedures, and ultimate collapse. William Garrett Piston's introduction places the volume in its historical context.
Like Unto Like
Häftad, 1997
251 kr
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Originally published in 1878, this novel marked the emergence of a feminist critique of southern society. It follows the romance between a free-spirited, intellectual woman and a Union soldier, and broke new ground in its representation of a wife's ""duties"" and the inclusion of black characters.
Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina
Häftad, 1999
275 kr
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First published in 1928, this text explores the Huguenot presence in the South Carolina colonies. The author provides description and analysis of the migration and settlement there, showing how communities and churches were founded and how religious, political and social integration occurred.
Rice Planter and Sportsman
The Recollections of J.Motte Alston, 1821-1909
Av J.Motte Alston, Arney R. Childs m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
232 kr
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Reprinted for the first time in more than forty years this memoir offers a candid look into the daily life of a Low Country South Carolina family, as well as commentary and opinion about such matters as rice cultivation, slavery, and the sporting life. In the SOUTHERN CLASSICS series.
Yazoo
Or, on the Picket Line of Freedom in the South - a Personal Narrative
Häftad, 2000
635 kr
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A revealing account of Reconstruction by a Wisconsin carpetbagger and devout abolitionist who moved to Mississippi in pursuit of wealth and social reform. In 1884, Albert T. Morgan published ""Yazoo"" to explain the difficulties he and his compatriots faced in the South.
Plain People of the Confederacy
Av Bell Irvin Wiley, John G. Sproat m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
196 kr
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This look at the Confederate experience of soldiers, African Americans, and women sparked a debate about the reasons for southern defeat when it was first published in 1944. It challenges southern myths about a contented and loyal slave population, and questions popular morale.
Black and White in the Southern States
A Study of the Race Problem in the United States from a South African Point of View
Häftad, 2001
239 kr
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REPRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME since its publication in 1915, Black and White in the Southern States is one of the earliest studies in comparative race relations and the first to connect the experience of the American South to that of South Africa. This work is a synthesis of the observations Evans …
Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
Häftad, 2001
210 kr
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THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH ACCOUNT of the advent of the cotton-textile industry in the region, The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South immediately defined industrialization in the rural South upon its publication in 1921. Its influence was widely felt by southern intellectuals and shaped the …
Three O'Clock Dinner
Häftad, 2001
299 kr
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First published in 1945 to international acclaim and winner of the Southern Authors Award, Three O'Clock Dinner is Josephine Pinckney's best-selling novel about an ill-fated marriage on the eve of World War II. This powerful tale written by a consummate Charleston insider and set in the historic …
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Av Lorenzo Dow Turner, Lorenzo D. Turner
Häftad, 2002
283 kr
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A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic …
Pitchfork Ben Tillman
South Carolinian
Häftad, 2002
411 kr
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The definitive biography of a controversial South Carolina leader; Upon its initial publication in 1944, Pitchfork Ben Tillman was a signal event in the writing of modern South Carolina history. In a biography the Journal of Southern History called ""definitive."" Francis Butler Simkins brings his …
South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900
Häftad, 2003
457 kr
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African Americans in the state after Reconstruction and before Jim Crow; First published in 1952, South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 rediscovers a time and a people nearly erased from public memory. In this pathbreaking book, George B. Tindall turns to the period after Reconstruction before a tide …
Slave Power
Its Character, Career and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest
Av John E. Cairnes, John G. Sproat m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
312 kr
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John E. Cairnes's seminal work on slavery was widely acclaimed upon its publication in 1862 as a brilliant attempt both to explain the essential cause of the American Civil War and to shape European policy concerning the struggle.
South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865
Häftad, 2005
239 kr
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The landmark political study of South Carolina's secession and governance during the Civil War. First published in 1950 and long sought by collectors and historians, ""South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865"" stands as the only institutional and political history of the Palmetto State's secession …
South Carolina Rice Plantation As Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W. Allston
Av Robert F. W. Allston, J.H. Easterby
Häftad, 2004
291 kr
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The reissue of The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston makes available for a new generation of readers a firsthand look at one of South Carolina's most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which …
War, Politics and Reconstruction
Stormy Days in Louisiana
Häftad, 2006
202 kr
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A memoir of the ambitious life and controversial political career of Louisiana governor Henry Clay Warmoth (1842-1931), ""War, Politics, and Reconstruction"" is a firsthand account of the political and social machinations of Civil War America and the war's aftermath in one of the most volatile …
Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864
Benjamin Blake Minor
Häftad, 2007
235 kr
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The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed an impressive thirty-year run (1834-1864) and was, in its time, the South's most important literary periodical. Published in Richmond, Virginia, the monthly magazine was originally edited by Edgar Allan Poe and is remembered for publishing poems, fiction, and …
Life and Labor in the Old South
Häftad, 2007
283 kr
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A celebrated social history, ""Life and Labor in the Old South"" (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by a leading historian of the first half of the twentieth century. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips …
Soil Exhaustion As a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860
Häftad, 2008
210 kr
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Recognized since its publication in 1926 as a watershed in American historiography, Craven's study of soil depletion in Virginia and Maryland links elements of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, causal aspects of the expansion of slavery, and the economics of staple-crop production into a …
McGillivray of the Creeks
Häftad, 2007
291 kr
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First published in 1939, ""McGillivray of the Creeks"" is a unique mix of primary and secondary sources for the study of American Indian history in the Southeast. John Walton Caughey's definitive biography of Creek leader, Alexander McGillivray (1750-1793) is coupled with 214 letters between …
Unexpected Exodus
How the Cold War Displaced One Southern Town
Häftad, 2007
225 kr
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This is a firsthand account of a bomb factory's impact on small town life in South Carolina. First published in 1971, grade school teacher Louise Cassels' poignant memoir recounts the displacement of the residents of Ellenton, South Carolina, in the early 1950s to make way for the massive Savannah …
Blackways of Kent
Av Hylan Lewis
Häftad, 2008
251 kr
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This is a participant-observer's account of African American life in a small Southern town just prior to the Civil Rights era.Consisting of ""Blackways of Kent"" (1955), ""Millways of Kent"" (1958), and ""Townways of Kent"", the ""Kent Trilogy"" forms a remarkable southern ethnography that maps the …
Millways of Kent
Häftad, 2008
210 kr
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This is a compelling portrait of life in a Southern Piedmont mill village after the Great Depression.Morland's skill as an oral historian and his respect for blue-collar subjects allow him to describe the cotton mill workers of York as sympathetic, three-dimensional human beings, something a bit …
