Transactions Of The Alabama Historical Society 1897 1898 Vol 2 Classic Reprint

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The Mobile River

Author : John S. Sledge
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611174864
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book The Mobile River written by John S. Sledge and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fine, fascinating book. John S. Sledge introduces us to four centuries worth of heroes and rogues on one incredible American river.” —Winston Groom, New York Times–bestselling author of Forrest Gump The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse. Inspired by the venerable Rivers of America series, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements with personal experiences and more than sixty color and black-and-white images for a rich and rewarding read. Previous historians have paid copious attention to the other rivers that make up the Mobile’s basin, but the namesake stream along with its majestic delta and beautiful bay have been strangely neglected. In an attempt to redress the imbalance, Sledge launches this book with a first-person river tour by “haul-ass boat.” Along the way he highlights the four diverse personalities of this short stream—upland hardwood forest, upper swamp, lower swamp, and harbor. In the historical saga that follows, readers learn about colonial forts, international treaties, bloody massacres, and thundering naval battles, as well as what the Mobile River’s inhabitants ate and how they dressed through time. A barge load of colorful characters is introduced, including Native American warriors, French diplomats, British cartographers, Spanish tavern keepers, Creole women, steamboat captains, African slaves, Civil War generals and admirals, Apache prisoners, hydraulic engineers, stevedores, banana importers, Rosie Riveters, and even a few river rats subsisting off the grid—all of them actors in a uniquely American pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity along a river that gave a city its name. “Sledge brilliantly explores the myriad ways human history has entwined with the Mobile River.” —Gregory A. Waselkov, author of A Conquering Spirit

The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Prominent Families of New York

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide to Reprints

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
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Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subject Guide to Books in Print

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 3310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twice the Work of Free Labor

Author : Alexander C. Lichtenstein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Twice the Work of Free Labor written by Alexander C. Lichtenstein and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism, this cruel and unusual punishment should invoke strong memories. But, in the rush to embrace ever-harsher sanctions, the American public has ignored the troubling history of Southern punishment.Twice the Work of Free Labor is the first book-length study of the history of the Southern convict-lease system and its successor, the chain gang. For nearly a century after the abolition of slavery, convicts labored in the South's mines, railroad camps, brickyards, turpentine farms and then road gangs, under abject conditions. The vast majority of these prisoners were African Americans. In this timely book, Alex Lichtenstein reveals the origins of this vicious penal slavery, explains its persistent and widespread popularity among whites, and charts its unhappy contribution to the rebirth of the South in the decades following the Civil War.The book also offers an original analysis of the post-Civil War South's political economy. Lichtenstein suggests that, after emancipation, forced black labor was exploited not by those who yearned for the social order of the slave South, but by the region's most ardent advocates of progress. The convict-lease and chain gang allowed a New South to rise while preserving white supremacy.

Historic Residential Suburbs

Author : David L. Ames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Historic Residential Suburbs written by David L. Ames and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Books in Series, 1876-1949: Titles

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Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Books in Series, 1876-1949: Titles

Author : R.R. Bowker Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
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Download or read book Books in Series, 1876-1949: Titles written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philology

Author : James Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069116858X
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Philology written by James Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word? In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.

Modernity At Large

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900063
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity At Large written by Arjun Appadurai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Savannah and South Georgia

Author : William Harden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Slavery and the University

Author : Leslie Maria Harris
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354422
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the University written by Leslie Maria Harris and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the post-Civil War era to the present day. The collection features broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions, such as Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of thinking about racial diversity in the history and current practices of higher education.

Books in Print

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2082 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Genesee Country (Western New York)

Author : Lockwood Richard Doty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book History of the Genesee Country (Western New York) written by Lockwood Richard Doty and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Utopia

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.