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This volume gathers personal recollections by 15 eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field's richness on many levels.

These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how the community both regards itself and reveals itself to others.

A biography of Eugene Odum. Betty Jean Craige depicts the intellectual growth, creativity and vision of the scientist who made the ecosystem concept central to his discipline and translated the principles of ecosystem ecology into lessons in preserving the natural environment.

While the field of environmental ethics has explored rights and duties for land use, stewardship and policy, relatively little attention has been given to comparable issues of marine environments. Aiming to fill this gap, this book collects 15 papers on a broad array of ethical and policy issues.

North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to ""known members of the Communist Party"" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment. This work bares the truth behind the false image of the speaker ban's ostensible concern.

Examines how freed men and women in tobacco-growing central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in society. The text draws upon public records and assembled stories of individual lives from the initial days of emancipation to the turn of the century.

In 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman made Civil War history with his infamous March to the Sea across Georgia. More than a century later, Jerry Ellis set out along the same route in search of the past and his southern and Cherokee heritage. Here he confronts the complexities of his native region.

This collection of photographs of African Americans takes us to a place at once familiar and foreign. Set in the South early in the 20th century, these photographs bridge a distance not only of time but also of contrasting attitudes and customs.

From the American Revolution to NAFTA to the Helms-Burton Act and beyond, this work offers an assessment of relations between the USA and Canada. It seeks to distil a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic and political developments of mutual importance during the past two centuries.

DuBignon's passage of 86 years took him from a tradition-bound Europe to the entrepots of the Indian Ocean to the plantation culture of a Georgia barrier island. Wherever he went, commerce was the constant. Keber's detailed biography tells how he prospered in the Old World and the New.

Growing up in remote central Canada, Larry O'Connor was spellbound by the country farther north. A memoir of self discovery, this work samples the history and lore of the frozen arctic wastes as it reveals a young man's journey across his family's past.

Collected here are poems by one of Georgia's most intriguing and talented poets of the twentieth century. Byron Herbert Reece was born in Union County, Georgia, in 1917 and authored four volumes of poems and two novels during his short lifetime. Until now, many of his poems, originally published in the 1940s and 1950s, have been out of print.

First explored by naturalist William Bartram in the 1760s, the St. Johns River stretches 310 miles along Florida's east coast, making it the longest river in the state. In the first contemporary book about the river, Bill Belleville describes his journey down its length, kayaking, boating, hiking, diving, and exploring its underwater caves.

This title unites the award-winning photography of Diane Kirkland with the writing of David Bottoms, Georgia's poet laureate. The result is portrait of the lands, waters, culture, and people of Georgia.

This novel is a comic historical epic with a memorable heroine. While parodying the style of 18th-century novelists such as Henry Fielding, it charts the growth of the beautiful Jenny Dorset as she matures from a headstrong child into a tenacious freedom fighter.

In Nations Divided, Don H. Doyle looks at some unexpected parallels in American and Italian history. What we learn will reattune us to the complexities and ironies of nationalism. During his travels around southern Italy not long ago, Doyle was caught off guard by frequent images of the Confederate battle flag. The flag could also be seen, he was told, waving in the stands at soccer matches. At the same time, a political movement in northern Italy called for secession from the South. A historian with a special interest in the long troubled relationship between the American South and the United States, Doyle was driven to understand the forces that unite and divide nations from within.The Italian South had been at odds with the more prosperous, metropolitan North of Italy since the countrys bloody unification struggles in the 1860s. Thousands of miles from Doyles Tennessee home was an eerily familiar scenario: a South characterized in terms of its many perceived problems by a North eager to define national ideals against the southern other. From this abruptly decentered perspective, Doyle reexamines both countries struggle to create an independent, unified nation and the ongoing effort to instill national identity in their diverse populace. The Fourth of July and Statuto Day; Lincoln and Garibaldi; the Confederate States of America and the secessionist dreams of Italys Northern League; NAFTA and the European Union-such topics appear in telling juxtaposition, both inviting and defying easy conclusions. At the same time, Doyle negotiates the conceptual slipperiness of nationalism by discussing it as both constructed and real, unifying and divisive, inspiration for good and excuse for atrocity.Americans like to think of themselves as being innocent of the vicious ethnic warfare that has raged in the Old World and over so much of the globe, writes Doyle. Europeans, in turn, enjoy reminding Americans of how little history they have. This enlightening, challenging meditation shows us that Europeans and Americans have much to learn from the common history of nationalism that has shaped both their worlds.

This photographs in this volume celebrate nature's cycles in a diverse southern garden - the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens. A general introduction traces the history and development of this public garden, and brief sectional essays describe the special features of the Garden.

This is a portrait of one of Atlanta's most prominent African American families, illustrating Alonzo Herndon's ascent from slavery to the business elite. Their story is one of by-the-bootstraps resolve, tough compromises in the face of racism and lasting contributions to their city.

A collection of stories offering the drama, humour and heartache of everyday life and unexpected tragedy - with more than a few twists. The stories cover the terrain of transition between the old and the new, history and the present, holding on and letting go.

This work tells how the first generation of Protestant fundamentalists embraced the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing, advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the gospel.

At once criminal and saviour, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Trickster Lives offers thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African American, Native American, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers.

Viola Liuzza was the only white woman honoured at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. This biography follows Liuzza through her childhood in the south, adult life in Michigan, to the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, where she died in a Klan ambush.

Through analysis of the history of the American revolution in Georgia, this study presents a thorough examination of how landownership issues complicated and challenged the loyalties of the colonists.

This study traces the story of how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German-American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system developed by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. The text includes the complete diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus.

This study explores the relationships of black and white women in the context of contemporary southern fiction. It provides an overview of literary incarnations of friendship and examines how prevalent specific relationships have become in certain writer's work.

After introducing the reader to the animal that fashions and uses tools, exploits forest medicines and exhibits human-like emotions, this text presents a study of the threats to wild chimpanzees' habitats and the many abuses that chimps have endured and continue to face at the hands of humans.

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.

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.

This volume explores the often complicated ways in which ethnicity and social rank interacted to determine the relationships that were forged among four categories of women in the Revolutionary and early National Georgia Lowcountry.

Early environmental writers provided American settlers with an idealistic conception of their place in the New World. This study takes an ecocritical approach to these early writings to demonstrate how they defined not only nature but the American national subjectivity as well.