Southern Man. Music And Mayhem In The American South (A Memoir), Paperback - S.E. Feinberg

Southern Man tells the story of Alan Walden, one of the most colourful and influential personalities to emerge from the history of R&B and Southern...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

A journey to the American South in search of friendship, life lessons and bluegrass.

Reducere. "Excellent social history...an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review A modern epic of the battles...

This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book...

Reducere. The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine--along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turp...

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

Reducere. Fascinated by the collision of country and soul music in the Southern states, Hoskyns and photographer Muir MacKean set out on a journey through th...

Reducere. At 7: 30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year...

Reducere. Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe civil rights movement was al...

Reducere. In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and p...

Reducere. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

Reducere. The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. Th...

Reducere. A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and...

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system an...

Reducere. A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this c...

Reducere. The pleasant neighborhoods of the Crescenta Valley offer no hint of the many violent and heinous crimes that have occurred between the San Gabriel ...

At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Geo...

Reducere. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there f...

Reducere. In this richly revealing biography of a major, but little-known, American businessman and philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli brings to life a portrait...

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...

Reducere. DescriptionAn illustrated glovebox essential, Road Sides explores the fundamentals of a well-fed road trip through the American South, from A to Z....

Reducere. While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among th...

Murder and dark deeds shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dresse...

Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...

Reducere. "A fascinating story."--Virginia Magazine "The detail of the discussion, the reliance on considerable primary evidence, and the overall contributio...

An Indie Next Selection for September 2021 From the author of the bestselling #ReadWithJenna/TODAY Show book club pick Late Migrations: A Natural H...

Reducere. Boston's history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes. In 1845, a woman lured into prostitution was murdered at the hands of her jealous l...

Reducere. Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the present day by focusing on ...

In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American South by retracing the route of the original Freedom Riders of the 1960s. His road trip was a remarkable ...

The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the hi...

Reducere. The Southern Strategy was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what Angie Maxwe...

In Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, Heersink and Jenkins examine how National Convention politics allowed the South to ...

Reducere. DescriptionMurder and Mayhem -- true stories of crimes in the United State's fourth corner. Everything from public hangings, husbands killing wives...

Reducere. "This is a comprehensive introduction to the conflicts that ensued between Native Americans and their European encroachers from the earliest record...

Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew...

A vivid and contemporary retelling of the Greek myths.