From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina, Paperback - H. Tyler Blethen

Reducere. Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically descr...

Reducere. Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses t...

Reducere. From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to res...

Reducere. Joe Miller brings us the first-ever stand-alone guidebook to backpacking in North Carolina, a state long known as a terrific backpacking destinatio...

Reducere. DescriptionOf the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 mil...

Reducere. Early in life, North Carolinian Debbie Moose encountered fish primarily in stick form, but once she experienced her first raw oyster and first frie...

Reducere. They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The desce...

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known a...

Reducere. Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and sp...

DescriptionJean Anderson's new cookbook deliciously brings together two of her lifelong passions--great food and North Carolina pottery. Fans of bo...

Reducere. This guide provides everything you need to know to discover the South's best-kept secrets of winter recreation: snow-covered mountains, remote yet ...

Reducere. The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In th...

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Reducere. This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. Davi...

Reducere. For readers of all levels of interest and expertise, this guide provides a clear, informative look at the ecology and biology of the dunes. Botanic...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New Guide to North Carolina Beaches is an invaluable resource for every coastal traveler in the Tar Heel State. This descriptive gui...

Reducere. DescriptionCrisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitch...

Reducere. The Scottish Migration To Ulster In The Reign Of James I by M. Perceval-Maxwell was first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most...

Reducere. The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentie...

Reducere. John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly on...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Reducere. Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu...

Reducere. The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else...

Reducere. More than 1.5 million North Carolinians today live in poverty. More than one in five are children. Behind these sobering statistics are the faces o...

Reducere. Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receiv...

Reducere. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5, 000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada ...

Reducere. The rich history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is reflected in the names of its towns, geographic features, and waterways. A book over twenty yea...

Reducere. Covering the Carolinas from up-country to the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain, this book is an in-depth yet accessible primer on the many ways that C...

Reducere. DescriptionCovering 40 of the best trips the state of Virginia has to offer, Backpacking Virginia provides all the information necessary for beginn...

Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstituti...

This tenth revised edition of the popular marker guide contains inscriptions on 1, 513 markers erected across the state between 1935 and 2007. The ...

Reducere. The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is an 1, 175-mile destination trail that crosses North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Pa...

Reducere. Like a leisurely stroll along the oak-shaded paths of campus, this vibrant collection of photographs captures the heart and soul of the community t...

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate...

Reducere. America's most populous region is also home to some of the nation's most serenely beautiful country. Tracing a gentle, thousand-mile curve from New...

DescriptionAmid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more. This book f...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Reducere. Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. ...

Reducere. In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

Reducere. Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, po...

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Reducere. Designed primarily for field study, this book introduces the variety of species living in our diverse coastal setting, from sand dunes to salt mars...

Reducere. Taking the North Carolina Learner's Permit Test? Ace It Without Any Problems With the Help of This North Carolina Driver's Workbook.The driving exa...