Author: Absalom Harris ChappellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418132934
Category :
Languages : en
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Miscellanies of Georgia, Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, Etc. , Absalom H. Chappell
Author: Absalom Harris ChappellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418132934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Miscellanies of Georgia, Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, Etc., Absalom H. Chappell.
Author: Absalom Harris ChappellPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Miscellanies of Georgia
Author: Absalom Harris ChappellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creek Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860
Author: James C. BonnerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 1964, A History of Georgia Agriculture describes the early land and labor systems in the state. Agriculture came to Georgia with the first settlers and was largely directed toward the economic self-sufficiency of the British Empire. James C. Bonner's portrayal of the colonial cattle industry is prescient of the later open-range West. He also clearly shows how shortages of horses and implements, poor plowing techniques, and a lack of skill in tool mechanics spawned the cotton-slaves-mules trilogy of antebellum agriculture, which in turn led to land exhaustion and eventual emigration. By the 1850s the general southern desire for economic independence promoted diversification and such scientific farming techniques as crop rotation, contour plowing, and fertilization. Planting of pasture forage to improve livestock and hold soil was advocated and the teaching of agriculture in public schools was promoted. Contemporary descriptions of individual farms and plantations are interspersed to give a picture of day to day farming. Bonner presents a picture of the average Southern farmer of 1850 which is neither that of a landless hireling nor of the traditional planter, but of a practical man trying to make a living.
Books Relating to the History of Georgia in the Library of Wymberley Jones De Renne, of Wormsloe, Isle of Hope, Chatham County, Georgia
Author: Wymberley Jones De RennePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Georgia's Last Frontier
Author: James C. BonnerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Published in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves. He details how the discovery of gold in the Villa Rica area resulted in drunkenness and violence, but also laid the foundations of mining technology that were later used in Colorado and California. The region remained isolated until after the Civil War, when a rail line was constructed to stimulate cotton cultivation. With the development of the railway, Carroll County's frontier traditions waned in the early twentieth century.
Biographical Books, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835216036
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
Georgia and State Rights
Author: Ulrich Bonnell PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Land & Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia
Author: Leslie HallPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820322629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This history of the American Revolution in Georgia offers a thorough examination of how landownership issues complicated and challenged colonists’ loyalties. Despite underdevelopment and isolation, eighteenth-century Georgia was an alluring place, for it promised settlers of all social classes the prospect of affordable land--and the status that went with ownership. Then came the Revolution and its many threats to the orderly systems by which property was acquired and protected. As rebel and royal leaders vied for the support of Georgia’s citizens, says Leslie Hall, allegiance became a prime commodity, with property and the preservation of owners’ rights the requisite currency for securing it. As Hall shows, however, the war’s progress in Georgia was indeterminate; in fact, Georgia was the only colony in which British civil government was reestablished during the war. In the face of continued uncertainties--plundering, confiscation, and evacuation--many landowners’ desires for a strong, consistent civil authority ultimately transcended whatever political leanings they might have had. The historical irony here, Hall’s study shows, is that the most successful regime of Georgia’s Revolutionary period was arguably that of royalist governor James Wright. Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia is a revealing study of the self-interest and practical motivations in competition with a period’s idealism and rhetoric.
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Author: Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art DeptPublisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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