North Carolina, Hardcover

Reducere. Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-w...

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

Reducere. The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history b...

Reducere. In this charming account, North Carolina historian Jane Gibson Nardy recounts a treasure-trove of true stories from her beloved Blue Ridge communit...

Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsIn this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other...

Reducere. DescriptionPlan a weekend of hiking, cycling, climbing, and paddling Whether you're a novice or an experienced adventurer, North Carolina offers a ...

Reducere. During the early 1960s, local leaders in western and northwestern North Carolina were dedicated to developing winter recreational opportunities in ...

Reducere. With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural ...

Reducere. Classic North Carolina stoneware pots--with their rich textures, monochromatic glazes, and minimal decoration--belong to one of America's most reve...

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail shows off the most spectacular, historic and quirky elements of the North Carolina landscape. Stretching one thousand mi...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the sun slips behind the trees and shadows lengthen near dusk, the mountains and valleys of Highlands and Cashiers whisper with o o...

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

Reducere. Since the earliest days of European exploration, mariners have heard tales and relayed their own stories of North Carolina's perilous shoreline. Wi...

Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay...

With Grand Illusions, Laura Phillips brings to readers her findings after decades of study of decorative interior painting. The chief focus is on t...

Reducere. From its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination, North Carolina has an amazingly colorful history. Author an...

Reducere. From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and s...

Reducere. DescriptionSettled as a maritime and agricultural colony, North Carolina's history has always been intertwined with agriculture and farming. After ...

Reducere. DescriptionI m continually intrigued by the manner in which the natural and human histories of any given region overlap and eventually commingle. T...

Reducere. DescriptionSelf-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like...

The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina ...

Hugh Morton was seldom seen in his adult life without a camera around his neck. Much to the benefit of his beloved home state, he crisscrossed Nort...

Reducere. Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance ...

Reducere. Robust and delicious, beans and field peas have graced the tables of southerners for generations, making daily appearances on vegetable plates, sid...

Reducere. DescriptionA new, annotated edition of an important slave narrative first published in 1922. Written by William Henry Singleton, who had been a sla...

Reducere. Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illust...

Reducere. DescriptionOperating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confe...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between ...

Reducere. DescriptionNative North Carolinians tend to learn the state toast (adopted by the General Assembly in 1957) in childhood. As with the state motto, ...

DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

Reducere. This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflow...

DescriptionA compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on...

Reducere. DescriptionA native New Englander, chef Bruce Moffett fell in love with the South. Founding chef of three Charlotte restaurants--Barrington's, Good...

Reducere. DescriptionThe office of notary public has a long and proud history in our society. Their work is rarely glamorous, but it is so important that the...

Reducere. In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brule brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth sty...

Reducere. The roots of American music are deeply grounded in North Carolina s music history. North Carolina musicians pioneered and mastered the genres of ol...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective pa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cary CarsonEditor: Carl R. LounsburyFor more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsb...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack college football began during the nadir of African American life after the Civil War. The first game occurred in 1892, a little le...

Reducere. For nearly twenty-five years, Mildred Council--better known by her nickname, Mama Dip--has nourished thousands of hungry folks in Chapel Hill, Nort...

Contributor(s): Author: Penelope Muse AbernathyAmerica's community newspapers have entered an age of disruption. Towns and cities continue to need ...

Contributor(s): Author: Nancy TomesIn a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that...

Reducere. Debbie Moose's Southern Holidays is a cook's celebration of the richly diverse holiday traditions of today's South. Covering big traditional holida...

Reducere. Fruit collects a dozen of the South's bountiful locally sourced fruits in a cook's basket of fifty-four luscious dishes, savory and sweet. Demand f...

Reducere. The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in t...

Reducere. More than 10 million people call the southeastern state of North Carolina home.A True Book: My United States series allows readers to experience wh...

Reducere. Whether you swear by peaches from Georgia or from South Carolina, there's no doubt that the fruit is sacred to southerners. From the moment the fir...

Reducere. For fifteen years, food writer Belinda Ellis traveled around the country for the White Lily(R) flour company, teaching people to make biscuits and ...

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. Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively throughout the South to create this first-ever guide to the region's burgeoning craft-liquor movement...

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...

Reducere. Passionate okra lovers crave this bright green, heat-loving vegetable, whether fried, grilled, steamed, roasted, boiled, broiled, pickled, raw, who...

Reducere. John Shelton Reed's Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held barbecu...

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

Reducere. In the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhe...

Reducere. Without corn, Tema Flanagan writes, the South would cease to taste like the South. Her treasury of fifty-one recipes demonstrates deliciously just ...

Reducere. Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

Reducere. It's bedtime in the Tar Heel StateSay goodnight to all your favorite locations, including: - Bank of America Stadium- Carowinds - North Carolina Mu...

Reducere. Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land, " revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the r...

Reducere. Henderson County boasts a colorful history complete with its own cast of characters and historic landmarks. Who composed a blockbuster opera a few ...

Reducere. For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying ...

Reducere. Most southern cooks will agree with Debbie Moose when she writes, "Like a full moon on a warm southern night, buttermilk makes something special ha...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this paean to the brightly colored root, April McGreger tells the multifaceted history of a fundamental southern food, praising its r...