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Continuous State Of War - Empire Building And Race Making In The Civil War-Era Gulf South

by Maria Angela Diaz

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 From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War tells the story of several communities, such as Galveston, New Orleans, and Pensacola, as well as countries such as Mexico and Cuba, to uncover the way that wars within the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico facilitated American and southern attempts to conquer Latin American nations. In the push for westward expansion that preceded the Civil War, white southerners along with other Americans engaged in violent conquest in Latin America and the American West. Through the wars that are chronicled here, white southern concepts of race became more rigidly fixed. Maria Angela Diaz covers several conflicts leading up to the Civil War with Mexicans, Cubans, and Native Americans. She places the Civil War within this framework and follows the trajectory of relations with Latin America through the end of the Civil War and ex-Confederates' attempts to emigrate abroad. Gulf Coast communities facilitated both the physical efforts to seize territory and the construction of the highly racialized imperialist ideas that reimagined Latin America as a region that could secure the South's future. Yet the pursuit of that territory created a fluctuating and uncertain situation that shaped the choices of the diverse peoples who lived along the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico in ways they did not expect.
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A Continuous State Of War - Empire Building And Race Making In The Civil Warâ€“Era Gulf South

by Maria Angela Diaz

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 A Continuous State of War tells the story of several communities, such as Galveston, New Orleans, and Pensacola, as well as countries such as Mexico and Cuba, to uncover the way that wars within the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico facilitated American and southern attempts to conquer Latin American nations.
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A Continuous State Of War - Empire Building And Race Making In The Civil Warâ€“Era Gulf South

by Maria Angela Diaz

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 A Continuous State of War tells the story of several communities, such as Galveston, New Orleans, and Pensacola, as well as countries such as Mexico and Cuba, to uncover the way that wars within the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico facilitated American and southern attempts to conquer Latin American nations.
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The Life Of Elreta Melton Alexander - Activism Within The Courts

by Virginia L. Summey

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 Explores the life of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston. In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School; in 1947 the first African American woman to practice law in North Carolina; and in 1968 the first African American woman to become an elected district court judge.
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Bodies In Blue - Disability In The Civil War North

by Sarah Handley-Cousins

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 In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins expands our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and both physical and mental conditions.
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Audacious Agitation - The Uncompromising Commitment Of Black Youth To Equal Education After Brown

by Vincent D. Willis

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 In the decade after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, it became clear to students, parents, and community members alike that court cases were insufficient in the pursuit of educational justice. This book explores what made it difficult for educational equality to become obtainable after the Brown decision.
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Buying And Selling Civil War Memory In Gilded Age America

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 Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory.
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Ground Crew - The Fight To End Segregation At Georgia State

by Maurice C. Daniels

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 Arnold became the NAACPâ€™s first federal court victory against segregated education in Georgia, establishing key legal precedents for subsequent litigation against racial discrimination in education. With Ground Crew, Maurice Daniels provides an intimate and detailed account that chronicles a compelling story.
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The Familiesâ€™ Civil War - Black Soldiers And The Fight For Racial Justice

by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.

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The Life Of Elreta Melton Alexander - Activism Within The Courts

by Virginia L. Summey

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 Explores the life of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston. In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School; in 1947 the first African American woman to practice law in North Carolina; and in 1968 the first African American woman to become an elected district court judge.
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Old Petersburg And The Broad River Valley Of Georgia - Their Rise And Decline

by E. Merton Coulter

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 Old Petersburg and the Broad River Valley of Georgia details colonial life at Petersburg, Georgia, at the junction of Broad and Savannah Rivers.
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Audacious Agitation - The Uncompromising Commitment Of Black Youth To Equal Education After Brown

by Vincent D. Willis

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 In the decade after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, it became clear to students, parents, and community members alike that court cases were insufficient in the pursuit of educational justice. This book explores what made it difficult for educational equality to become obtainable after the Brown decision.
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Southern Local Color - Stories Of Region, Race, And Gender

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 Conflict, exoticism, sensuality, eccentricity, and the sheer differences of the American South pervade this lively anthology. Its thirty-one stories, spanning the 1870s through to the early 1900s, represent some of the best southern fiction to appear during the great flowering of American local colour writing.
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Visions Of Glory - The Civil War In Word And Image

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 Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War.
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Politics In Georgia

by Arnold Fleischmann, Richard N. Engstrom e Robert M. Howard

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 This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect developments in Georgia politics and government since 2007â€"a decade that has seen three presidential election cycles, two midterm elections, and a census. Updates reflect not only changes in how Georgia is governed but also the economic and social trends helping to drive those changes.
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Religious Diversity And American Religious History - Studies In Traditions And Cultures

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 The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection.
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The Purchase Of Order - Stories

by Gail Galloway Adams

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 These short stories capture untidy lives in which the pain of living is confounded with a grin. The Purchase of Order depicts characters from Germany to Georgia, men and women attempting to find meaning within memory, who take joy in giving of themselves.
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The Piano Tuner - Stories

by Peter Meinke

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 In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets.
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Liberals, Politics, And Power - State Formation In Nineteenth-Century Latin America

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 Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of postindependence, this collection of essays draws attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals: idealistic visions and fiscal restraints. It focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latinos who applied liberal ideology to the founding of new states.
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The Cultural Patronage Of Medieval Women

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 The first volume exclusively devoted to an examination of the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The twelve essays in this volume look at women not simply as patrons of letters but also as patrons of the visual and decorative arts, of architecture, and of religious and educational foundations.
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Everybody Sing! - Community Singing In The American Picture Palace

by Esther M. Morgan-Ellis

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 Morgan-Ellis brings the era of movie palaces to life. She presents the origins of theater sing-alongs in the prewar community singing movement, describes the components of a sing-along, explores the styles of several organists, and assesses the aftermath of sound technology, including the sing-along films and childrenâ€™s matinees of the 1930s.
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The Slave-Trader'S Letter-Book - Charles Lamar, The Wanderer, And Other Tales Of The African Slave Trade

by Jim Jordan

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 In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of US law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar's letters from the 1850s, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities.
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Sapelo - People And Place On A Georgia Sea Island

by Buddy Sullivan

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 With a thematic approach of â€œpeople and place,â€ Sullivan reveals how prevailing environmental conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color photographs.
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The Ghosts Of Guerrilla Memory - How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers In The American West

by Matthew Christopher Hulbert

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 In the first accounting of its kind, Matthew Christopher Hulbertâ€™s book analyzes the cultural politics behind how Americans have remembered, misremembered, and re-remembered guerrilla warfare.
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