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Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One of the first Army bases to implement on a large scale President Truman's call for racial integration of the armed forces, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, quickly took its place in the Defense Department's official history of the process. What reporters, and later on, historians, overlooked was the interaction between the integration of Fort Jackson and developments - in particular, the civil rights movement - in the wider communities in which the...
Author
Series
Center books on the American South volume 9th v
Publisher
Center for American Places
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 100 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
x, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at an important aspect of southern memory: Reconstruction. This book examines what both white and black South Carolinians thought about the history of Reconstruction and how it shaped the way they lived their lives in the first half of the twentieth century. It addresses the dominant white construct of 'the dark days of Reconstruction'.
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xvi, 245 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways in immeasurable numbers. Before disease, war, and displacement altered the South's earliest human landscape, Native Americans hunted and ate birds and made tools and weapons from their beaks, bones, and talons. More significant to Shepard Krech III, Indians adorned themselves with feathers, invoked avian...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Radical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Republican Party who struggled for political, civil, and labor rights in North Carolina after the Civil War. In so doing, they paved the way for the victorious coalition that briefly toppled the white supremacist Democratic Party regime in the 1890s. Beckel provides a nuanced assessment of the distinctive...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xxi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. This book argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided, and denied the virulent disease environment; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South, and the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xix, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"War upon the land is not merely an environmental history of the war ... Instead, Brady's is a book about how the Civil War engaged with, and forever altered, a suite of nineteenth-century American ideas about nature ... Thus [it] examines the place of wilderness in the history of the Civil War, and as importantly, the place of the Civil War in the history of wilderness"--Foreword.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
x, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state during "the age of lynching," Terence Finnegan explains lynching as a consequence of the revolution in social relations - assertiveness, competition, and tension...
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