Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World, Hardcover - Daniel S. Pierce

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Reducere. The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in t...

Reducere. How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a c...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth Carolina is rich in Native American, Colonial, and Civil War history, and this heritage brings stories of ghosts and creatures fro...

Reducere. An amazing assortment of twenty-three stories and ten "short shorts" comprise this popular selection. More than merely entertaining, Tar Heel Ghost...

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Reducere. This lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state's history, from the tim...

Reducere. In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginni...

Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

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

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply i...

Reducere. North Georgia Moonshine: A History of the Lovells & Other Liquor Makers, Hardcover

Reducere. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime, and police forces, arms makers, po...

Reducere. North Carolina holds a special place in the history of moonshine. For more than three centuries, the illicit home-brew was a way of life. NASCAR em...

Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoli...

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From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...

Reducere. In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Explori...

Reducere. The 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 highest co...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

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Reducere. When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he h...

A leading authority on the people and events that have shaped North Carolina over four centuries, Powell here provides a sharply drawn overall hist...

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. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Ch...

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

Reducere. Hugh Morton has had a long and active public life as an environmentalist, developer, and promoter of tourism. His favorite role, however, is that o...

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. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

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

Reducere. From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of you...

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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. North Carolina holds a special place in the history of moonshine. For more than three centuries, the illicit home-brew was a way of life. NASCAR em...

Reducere. This classic botanical handbook, originally compiled by the late William S. Justice and C. Ritchie Bell, pairs hundreds of color photographs with d...

Reducere. For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and...

Reducere. While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for ...

A new paperback reissue of the classic, internationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new forew...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Mia KalefNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperback ...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are org...