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Georgia Quilts - Piecing Together A History

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 An abundantly illustrated volume from the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project and the most authoritative survey of quilts and quiltmakers in the state. Showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used from the nineteenth century to the present and reveals how quilts serve as conduits of history and culture.
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Architecture Of The Last Colony - Georgia'S Historic Places, 1733â€“2000

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 The six chapters in the book, written by architectural historians with subject-matter expertise, are organized chronologically and by architectural style, covering the earliest buildings in Georgia up through significant contemporary structures of the twentieth century.
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Charleston And Savannah - The Rise, Fall, And Reinvention Of Two Rival Cities

by Thomas D. Wilson

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 Offers a comprehensive history of Charleston and Savannah in a single volume, weaving together the influences and parallels of their intrinsic stories. Thomas Wilson charts the ebb and flow of the progress and development of the cities using various through lines running within each chapter, constructing an overall character assessment of each.
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Saving The Georgia Coast - A Political History Of The Coastal Marshlands Protection Act

by Paul Bolster

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 Enhances the readerâ€™s understanding of the many steps it takes for a bill to become a law. Bolsterâ€™s account reviews state policy toward the coast today, giving the reader an opportunity to compare yesterday to the present.
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I Have Been Assigned The Single Bird - A Daughter'S Memoir

by Susan Cerulean

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 Susan Ceruleanâ€™s memoir trains a naturalistâ€™s eye and a daughterâ€™s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia.
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Following The Tabby Trail - Where Coastal History Is Captured In Unique Oyster-Shell Structures

by Jingle Davis

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 Following the Tabby Trail provides a guided tour of some of the most significant tabby structures found along the southeastern coast and includes more than two hundred illustrations that highlight the human and architectural histories of forty-eight specific sites.
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Trees Of The South-Eastern United States

by Marion B. Duncan e Wilbur H. Duncan

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 This guide is designed to enable readers to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern USA. It treats more than 300 species and features identification keys, common and scientific names, distribution maps, and a glossary of terms.
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Captain Jones'S Wormslow - A Historical, Archaeological, And Architectural Study Of An Eighteenth-Century Plantation Site Near Savannah, Georgia

by William M. Kelso

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 Attempts to define what effect the semitropical, hostile border environment of colonial Georgia had on the plantation development scheme of at least one English settler. Kelso's report concludes with a detailed study of the artifacts with illustrations, descriptions, and identifications of the important pieces.
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States' Laws On Race And Color

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 This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated racial segregation and of pre-Brown-era civil rights legislation. The volume cites legislation from forty-eight states and the District of Columbia, and ordinances of twenty-four major cities across the US.
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Southern Cooking

by S. R. Dull

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 No southern food enthusiast should be without this gathering of 1,300 flavourful recipes for such classic dishes as fried chicken, cornbread, pickled watermelon rinds, and sweet potato pie. This is the starting place for anyone in search of authentic dishes done in the traditional style.
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Mark Twain, Culture And Gender - Envisioning America Through Europe

by J. D. Stahl

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 In this challenging and original study, J. D. Stall looks closely at various Twain works with European settings and traces the manner in which the great writer redefined European notions of class into American concepts of gender, identity, and society.
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Georgia'S Amazing Coast - Natural Wonders From Alligators To Zoeas

by David Bryant, George D. Davidson e Georgia Sea Grant; Illustration: Charlotte Ingram

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 Fun and learning come together in Georgia's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary.
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Snakes Of The Southeast

by Mike Dorcas e Whit Gibbons

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 Filled with more than 300 colour photographs, this is a comprehensive guide to the snakes of the Southeast of North America. At the heart of the guide are its illustrated descriptions of each species and its habitat. Also included is information about the importance of snake conservation and the biology, diversity, and life cycles of snakes.
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Johnny Mercer - Southern Songwriter For The World

by Glenn T. Eskew

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 An exhaustive biography of John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer, one of America's greatest songwriters who wrote for Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald from the 1930s to the 1960s. Winner of Academy Awards for several of
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Unconventions - Attempting The Art Of Craft And The Craft Of Art

by Michael Martone

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 Including articles, public addresses, essays, interviews, and even a eulogy, these writings vary greatly in form but are unified in addressing the many technical and artistic issues that face all writers, particularly those interested in experimental and nontraditional modes and forms.
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Cumberland Island - A History

by Mary R. Bullard

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 Bullard draws on more than twenty years of research and travels about the island to describe how water, wind, and the cycles of nature continue to shape it and how humans have made their mark as well--from the Timuca, Guale, and Mocamo Indians to the subsequent appearances of Spanish, French, African, British, and American inhabitants.
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Georgia Women - Their Lives And Times, Volume 1

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 This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important roles.
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Georgia Women - Their Lives And Times, Volume 1

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 This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important roles.
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Lowcountry Hurricanes - Three Centuries Of Storms At Sea And Ashore

by Walter J. Fraser

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 With an eye on both natural and built environments, Fraser's narrative ranges from the first documented storm in 1686 to recent times in describing how the lowcountry has endured some of the severest effects of wind and water. This chronology of the most notable lowcountry storms is also a useful primer on the basics of hurricane dynamics.
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To Build Our Lives Together - Community Formation In Black Atlanta, 1875-1906

by Allison Dorsey

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 After Reconstruction, African Americans in Atlanta went about such self-interested pursuits as finding work and housing. This text chronicles the emergence of the network of churches, fraternal organizations and social clubs through which black Atlantans pursued their community formation goals.
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The Disfranchisement Myth - Poor Whites And Suffrage Restriction In Alabama

by Glenn Feldman

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 Glenn Feldman examines the 1901 referendum in Alabama to introduce a constitution that would effectively disenfranchise the majority of African Americans in the state. The property qualification would also disenfranchise many poor whites, yet the poor white community was deeply divided on the issue.
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Romancing The Vote - Feminist Activism In American Fiction, 1870-1920

by Leslie Petty

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 Petty examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. She studies the novels as paradigms of feminist activism and reform communities and elucidates how they, whether wittingly or not, model ways to create similar communities in the real world.
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Black On Earth - African American Ecoliterary Traditions

by Kimberly N. Ruffin

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 Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. Ruffin examines African American ecological insights from the antebellum era to the twenty-first century, considering WPA slave narratives, neoâ€"slave poetry, novels, essays, and documentary films.
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Short Stories Of The Civil Rights Movement - An Anthology

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 These twenty-three stories give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed. From bloody melees at public lunch counters to anxious musings at the family dinner table, the diverse experiences depicted in this anthology make the civil rights movement as real and immediate as the best histories and memoirs.
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