Author: Savannah (Ga.). MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Savannah (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Report of John Screven, Mayor of the City of Savannah, for the Year Ending September 30th, 1870
Author: Savannah (Ga.). MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Savannah (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
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.)Saving Savannah
Author: Jacqueline JonesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400078164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and whites, rich and poor, men and women from all walks of life confronting the transformations that would alter their city forever. Deeply researched and vividly written, Saving Savannah is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Civil War years.
Catalogue of the Library, Office Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, Washington, June 30, 1872
Author: United States. Department of War. Signal Service. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Black Georgia During Reconstruction
Author: Edmund L. DragoAnnals of Savannah, 1850-1937
Author: Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library at Wormsloe
Author: Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library, WormsloePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library, Wormsloe
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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.