Author: Hugh Peter Young
Publisher:
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Category : Montgomery County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Social and Economic History of Montgomery County, Alabama, 1846-1860
Author: Hugh Peter Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomery County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomery County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Social and Economic History of Montgomery, Alabama, 1846-1860
Respectable and Disreputable
Author: Jeffrey C. Benton
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603062297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations--military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities--religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows. Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans--at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas--shared very similar leisure time activities.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603062297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations--military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities--religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows. Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans--at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas--shared very similar leisure time activities.
History of Montgomery, Alabama, 1817-1846
Author: Clanton Ware Williams
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Category : Montgomery (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Publisher:
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Category : Montgomery (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Confederate Home Front
Author: William Warren Rogers
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731153X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Drawing from a wealth of historic documents and personal papers, William Warren Rogers, Jr., provides a detailed political, economic, social, and commercial history of Montgomery, Alabama, from 1860 to 1865. Rogers's account begins with an examination of daily life in the city before the war and ends with the situation in Montgomery as set against a disintegrating Confederacy and the city's surrender to Union troops.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731153X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Drawing from a wealth of historic documents and personal papers, William Warren Rogers, Jr., provides a detailed political, economic, social, and commercial history of Montgomery, Alabama, from 1860 to 1865. Rogers's account begins with an examination of daily life in the city before the war and ends with the situation in Montgomery as set against a disintegrating Confederacy and the city's surrender to Union troops.
Alias Simon Suggs
Author: William Stanley Hoole
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817353623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Annotation "When these words were written everybodyhadread or heard of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850s, knew something about his creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego, has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. Hoole'sAlias Simon Suggsis a noteworthy achievement. . . . A milestone in contemporary Alabama scholarship, it will become a standard reference work on the literary and political scene [and] as a distinguished piece of biographical writing, skillfully organized and deftly presented."--AlabamaReview
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817353623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Annotation "When these words were written everybodyhadread or heard of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850s, knew something about his creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego, has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. Hoole'sAlias Simon Suggsis a noteworthy achievement. . . . A milestone in contemporary Alabama scholarship, it will become a standard reference work on the literary and political scene [and] as a distinguished piece of biographical writing, skillfully organized and deftly presented."--AlabamaReview
The History of Alabama's Cities
Author: Lynda W. Brown
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Montgomery County and Economic Growth, 1776-1860
Author: Alvin Morris Shelton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Montgomery County, Alabama, Marriage Records
Author: Alabama. Department of Archives and History. Works Progress Administration
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Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages :
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The South
Author: Eric H. Monkkonen
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description