Author: Bertha Sheppard HartPublisher:
ISBN: 9780877970422
Category : Laurens County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Official History of Laurens County, Georgia, 1807-1941
Author: Bertha Sheppard HartPublisher:
ISBN: 9780877970422
Category : Laurens County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Official History of Laurens County, Georgia, 1807-1941
Author: Bertha Sheppard HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laurens County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910
Author: Mark V. WetheringtonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331686
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This examination of cultural change challenges the conventional view of the Georgia Pine Belt as an unchanging economic backwater. Its postbellum economy evolves from self-sufficiency to being largely dependent upon cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders. After the war, a variety of external forces, spearheaded by Reconstruction-era New South boosters, invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape in an attempt to create a South with a diversified economy. The first stage in the transformation -- railroad construction and a revival of steamboating -- led to the second stage: sawmilling and turpentining. The harvest of forest products during the 1870s and 1880s created new economic opportunities but left the area dependent upon a single industry that brought deforestation and the decline of the open-range system within a generation.
Old Hickory's War
Author: David HeidlerPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807128671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In the years following the War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans hero General Andrew Jackson became a power unto himself. He had earlier gained national acclaim and a military promotion upon successfully leading the West Tennessee militia in the Creek War of 1813--1814, Jackson furthered his fame in the First Seminole War in 1818, which led to his invasion of Spanish West Florida without presidential or congressional authorization and to the execution of two British subjects. In Old Hickory's War, David and Jeanne Heidler present an iconoclastic interpretation of the political, military, and ethnic complexities of Jackson's involvement in those two historic episodes. Their exciting narrative shows how the general's unpredictable behavior and determination to achieve his goals, combined with a timid administration headed by James Monroe, brought the United States to the brink of an international crisis in 1818 and sparked the longest congressional debate of the period.
The Colemanac, 1750-1976
Author: Arthur Clinton ColemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The James Parker Family of Georgia, 1780-1930
Author: William Alan MillsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
James Parker (ca. 1780-ca. 1855), son of John Parker and Mary Weeks of Edgecombe and Cumberland counties, North Carolina was born in North Carolina and died in Houston County, Georgia. Descendants lived in Georgia and elsewhere. Also includes information on the family of Solomon Barfield (ca. 1795-ca. 1860) who was born in North Carolina and died in Houston County, Georgia.
Show Thyself a Man
Author: Mixon, GregoryPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813055873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
In Show Thyself a Man, Gregory Mixon explores the ways African Americans in postbellum Georgia used the militia as a vehicle to secure full citizenship, respect, and a more stable place in society. As citizen-soldiers, black men were empowered to get involved in politics, secure their own financial independence, and publicly commemorate black freedom with celebrations such as Emancipation Day. White Georgians, however, used the militia as a different symbol of freedom--to ensure the postwar white right to rule. This book is a forty-year history of black militia service in Georgia and the determined disbandment process that whites undertook to destroy it, connecting this chapter of the post-emancipation South to the larger history of militia participation by African-descendant people through the Western hemisphere and Latin America.
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