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  • av James Kilgo
    409 - 1 378,-

    A candid account of James Kilgo's African sojourn, conveying the untamed beauty of the bush country with the attention of a seasoned naturalist and the wonder of a first-time visitor. Kilgo recalls what Africa revealed to him and reflects on the customs and beliefs that were all around him.

  • - Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy
    av Michael B. Ballard
    409,-

    This is a narrative account of the fall of the Confederacy told from the perspective of Jefferson Davis, his offical entourage, and his family as they tried to hold the government together while staying one step ahead of their Union Army pursuers.

  • - Writings of Elias Boudinot
    av Elias Boudinot
    436,-

    A collection of most of the writings published by the Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot. The work documents letters, articles, pamphlets and editorials in order to demonstrate the stages of Boudinot's religious, philosophical and political growth.

  • - A Splendid Failure
    av Edmund L. Drago
    436,-

    This study examines the reasons behind the demise of Radical Reconstruction in Georgia, showing that a primary factor was the extraordinary fairness on the part of the state's black leaders in dealing with their former masters. The book also looks at recent writing on Reconstruction.

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    382,-

    Published in 1895 as a souvenir of the Woman's Building at the Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta, this charming cookbook offers readers an opportunity to try recipes that were favorites of their grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

  • - Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement
    av Pat Watters
    477,-

    Part history and part meditation, Down to Now is a southern journalist's intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. First published in 1971 and written mostly from the author's own recollections, tapes, and notes, the book blends detailed reportage of the dramatic events with insightful commentary.

  • av Roy Wilder
    436,-

    This text explains the American South's linguistic heritage with 3000 humorous specimens of the region's speech.

  • av Erskine Caldwell
    450,-

    A graphic portrayal of the sharecropper's plight. This book documents the living conditions of the sharecroppers, America's poor rural underclass. Supported by commentary, the poor tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them.

  • - Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah
    av George Fenwick Jones
    436,-

    Based mainly on detailed journals and letters written by the Salzburgers' pastor, Johann Martin Boltzius, this work describes the expulsion of the Salzburger emigrants, their journey to Georgia, the hardships they endured, and their eventual success.

  • av Robert E. Burns
    1 459,-

    This is Burns' story of his escape from a Georgia chain gang in 1921, after being sentenced to six to ten years' hard labour for robbery. He lived as a free man for seven years before being recaptured and returned to the chain gang. Escaping again, he was a fugitive when his story was published.

  • - People of Persistence
    av Sharlotte Neely
    308,-

    An ethnographic study of Snowbird, North Carolina, a remote mountain community of Cherokees who are regarded as the most traditional, but also the most adaptive, members of the entire tribe. Neely explains this paradox and portrays the inhabitants' daily lives and culture.

  • av Erskine Caldwell
    409,-

    This is the story of the journey of Erskine Caldwell as he set out across the South to find his black boyhood friend, at the zenith of the civil rights movement. It seeks to answer questions surrounding the race problem through the many people that he met.

  • - Growing Up White in the Segregated South
    av Melton A. McLaurin
    361,-

    The author of this book recalls his boyhood during the 1950s in the small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, where whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows.

  • - New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008
    av Coleman Barks
    375,-

    As the foremost translator of thirteenth-century mystic poet Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks reaches a devoted, inspired, and ever-widening international audience. Yet the foundation for Barks's work as a translator is his own significant body of work as a poet. Winter Sky offers a selection from Barks's seven previously published books combined with a group of new poems.

  • - Poems Old and New
    av Judson Mitcham
    293,-

    Features poems from the collections, ""Somewhere in Ecclesiastes"" (1991) and This April Day"" (2003). This collection shows how the moments that truly save us - that make us human - are necessarily the most fleeting.

  • av Charles W. Chesnutt
    375,-

    John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in order to earn what he feels is his share of the American dream. Without sentimentality, this novel probes deeply into the white South's obsessions with race and privilege.

  • av Floyd C. Watkins
    375,-

    Recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s to World War II, recording vanished folklore. This title is built on experience and memory, but its characters and narrative transcend reminiscence to depict life as it really was.

  • av Donald Windham
    415,-

    The memoir of the youth of Donald Windham in Depression-era Atlanta. The recollections describe the pleasant memories of his childhood as well as the less happy ones, and recount Windham's increasing desire for a world beyond Atlanta.

  • - Stories by Cecil Dawkins
    av Cecil Dawkins
    361,-

    These seven stories, set in the rural South and West, delve beneath the surface of ordinary lives, revealing their foibles and idiosyncracies. For example, an old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger whom she takes to the devil, and a money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard than himself.

  • - A Novel
    av James Kilgo
    402,-

    Set in rural South Carolina in the early twentieth century, this work weaves a complex tale from the threads of actual events in author James Kilgo's family history. At the center of the story are two brothers, Hart and Tison Bonner, and their cousin Jennie Grant, the mixed-race woman one brother loves and the other dishonors.

  • - Early Days on a Southern Gridiron
    av John F. Stegeman
    293,-

    This is a chronicle of Bulldogs' football from 1891 to 1916. Players covered include George Woodruff, Herschel Walker, and Hafford Hay.

  • - Fiction of the Contemporary South
    av Linda Tate
    415,-

    Concentrating on the generation of women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South, this work considers the ways in which the women writers of the present generation reflect, expand, transform and redefine the notions of regional culture and womanhood.

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