Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report of Edward C. Anderson, Mayor of the City of Savannah
Author: Report of ... Mayor of the City of Savannah ...
Author: Savannah (Ga.). MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Savannah (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Annual Message to City Council of ... Mayor ... Together with the Reports of City Officers of the City of Savannah
Author: Savannah (Ga.)Savannah's Midnight Hour
Author: Lisa L. DenmarkPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Savannah’s Midnight Hour argues that Savannah’s development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative, in which the politics of slavery, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction dominate the analysis of economic development. Denmark shows us that Savannah’s fiscal experience in the antebellum and postbellum years, while exhibiting some distinctively southern characteristics, also echoes a larger national experience. Her broad account of municipal decision making about improvement investment throughout the nineteenth century offers a more nuanced look at the continuity and change of policies in this pivotal urban setting. Beginning in the 1820s and continuing into the 1870s, Savannah’s resourceful government leaders acted enthusiastically and aggressively to establish transportation links and to construct a modern infrastructure. Taking the long view of financial risk, the city/municipal government invested in an ever-widening array of projects—canals, railroads, harbor improvement, drainage— because of their potential to stimulate the city’s economy. Denmark examines how this ideology of over-optimistic risk-taking, rooted firmly in the antebellum period, persisted after the Civil War and eventually brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. The struggle to strike the right balance between using public policy and public money to promote economic development while, at the same time, trying to maintain a sound fiscal footing is a question governments still struggle with today.
The Epidemic at Savannah, 1876
Author: James Johnston WaringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacteriology
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia
Author: Edmund L. DragoPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820314382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This widely hailed study examines the reasons behind the quick demise of Radical Reconstruction in Georgia. Edmund L. Drago shows that a primary factor was, ironically, the extraordinary fairness on the part of the state's black leaders in dealing with their former masters. Lacking the sizable and experienced antebellum free-black class that existed in such states as South Carolina and Louisiana, Georgia's former slaves turned to their ministers for political leadership. Otherworldly and fatalistic, the ministers preached a message in which all people, even slaveholders, were deserving of God's mercy. Translated into politics, this message quickly and predictably brought disaster. Shortly after the black delegation to the state constitutional convention of 1867-1868 refused to support a provision guaranteeing blacks the right to hold office, blacks were expelled from the state legislature. Only then did the minister-politicians realize that they would have to become more militant and black-oriented if they were to challenge white supremacy. Propelled by this newfound toughness, they were soon able to achieve a limited success by bringing about the Second Reconstruction of Georgia. In the preface to this new edition, Drago surveys recent writing on Reconstruction and, drawing upon his own research on black leadership in South Carolina, compares experiences in that state to those in Georgia. It is time, he says, to give greater consideration to the role black women played in shaping politics and to the emergence of a black conservative political tradition. He also suggests that revisionists, in reacting to the racism in traditional histories, have sometimes glossed over issues of corruption and the black politician.
Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation)
Author: Contagious and Infectious Diseases
Author: Louisiana. Board of HealthPublisher:
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Black Savannah, 1788–1864
Author: Whittington JohnsonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557285462
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Black Savannah focuses upon efforts of African Americans, free and slave, who worked together to establish and maintain a variety of religious, social, and cultural institutions, to carve out niches in the larger economy, and to form cohesive black families in a key city of the Old South.
Author: William W. Sanger