Book Description
The Georgia Humanities Council presents a guidebook with cultural, historical, and regional coverage of Georgia
Author : University of Georgia Press
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780820317991
The Georgia Humanities Council presents a guidebook with cultural, historical, and regional coverage of Georgia
Author : Lynn Willoughby
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0817357254
This handsome, illustrated book chronicles the history of the Lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day. In highly accessible, energetic prose, Lynn Willoughby takes readers down the Lower Chattahoochee River and through the centuries. On this journey, the author begins by examining the first encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and the international contest for control of the region in the 17th and 19th centuries.Throughout the book pays particular attention to the Chattahoochee's crucial role in the economic development of the area. In the early to mid-nineteenth century--the beginning of the age of the steamboat and a period of rapid growth for towns along the river--the river was a major waterway for the cotton trade. The centrality of the river to commerce is exemplified by the Confederacy's efforts to protect it from Federal forces during the Civil War. Once railroads and highways took the place of river travel, the economic importance of the river shifted to the building of dams and power plants. This subsequently led to the expansion of the textile industry. In the last three decades, the river has been the focus of environmental concerns and the subject of "water wars" because of the rapid growth of Atlanta. Written for the armchair historian and the scholar, the book provides the first comprehensive social, economic, and environmental history of this important Alabama-Georgia-Florida river. Historic photographs and maps help bring the river's fascinating story to life.
Author : Joe Cook
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820346799
This useful guide traces the Chattahoochee's 430-mile course through 200 color photographs, 32 maps, and detailed practical information about public access points, potential hazards, and camping facilities.
Author : Gene L. Howard
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2008-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0817316051
The first and only historical account of the John Patterson administration
Author : John S. Lupold
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820355380
Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a slave in Cheraw, South Carolina, received no formal training makes his story all the more remarkable. This is the first major biography of the gifted architect and engineer who used his skills to transcend the limits of slavery and segregation and become a successful entrepreneur and builder. John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. add considerably to our knowledge of a man whose accomplishments demand wider recognition. As a slave and then as a freedman, King built bridges, courthouses, warehouses, factories, and houses in the three-state area. The authors separate legend from facts as they carefully document King’s life in the Chattahoochee Valley on the Georgia-Alabama border. We learn about King’s freedom from slavery in 1846, his reluctant support of the Confederacy, and his two terms in Alabama’s Reconstruction legislature. In addition, the biography reveals King’s relationship with his fellow (white) contractors and investors, especially John Godwin, his master and business partner, and Robert Jemison Jr., the Alabama entrepreneur and legislator who helped secure King’s freedom. The story does not end with Horace, however, because he passed his skills on to his three sons, who also became prominent builders and businessmen. In King’s world few other blacks had his opportunities to excel. King seized on his chances and became the most celebrated bridge builder in the Deep South. The reader comes away from King’s story with respect for the man; insight into the problems of financing, building, and maintaining covered bridges; and a new sense of how essential bridges were to the southern market economy.
Author : Charles Thornton Libby
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385483484
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Federal Writers' Project (Ga.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Stewart Emory Tolnay
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252064135
This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching, using U.S. Census and historical voting data and a newly constructed inventory of southern lynch victims. Among their surprising findings: lynching responded to fluctuations in the price of cotton, decreasing in frequency when prices rose and increasing when they fell.
Author : Ruth Story Devereux Eddy
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN :
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1465455280
Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition is now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in world geography, including the annexation of Crimea and the new nation of South Sudan. Bringing each featured landscape to life with detailed terrain models and color schemes and offering maps of unsurpassed quality, this atlas features four sections: a world overview, the main atlas, fact files on all the countries of the world, and an easy-to-reference index of all 100,000 place names. All maps enjoy a full double-page spread, with continents broken down into 330 carefully selected maps, including 100 city plans. You will also find a stimulating series of global thematic maps that explore Earth's place in the universe, its physical forms and processes, the living world, and the human condition. From Antarctica to Zambia, discover the Earth continent-by-continent with Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition.