Country Days and Southern Ways
Author: Dwight Holt
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780943487281
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Southern Ways and Southern Days
Author: Loretta Merrell Ekis
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-06-13
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781490356310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book depicts some Southern traditions, a few the peculiar expressions, recipes, and memories of an earlier time, all in a lighthearted glimpse of the South and Southerners. Whether you're from the Deep South or the coastal areas, you'll find yourself nodding and saying, Oh, yes. That's the way it was when I was growing up in the South. It also reflects on what has made the South different in many ways to other areas of the country, and bemoans the fact that the South, as is every area of the country, is becoming homogenized. This is an attempt to record for history some of the South's unique characteristics.
Slave Country
Author: Adam Rothman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005-04-25
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780674016743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.
Raised Country Style from South Carolina to Mississippi
Author: Bettye B. Burkhalter
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1449014542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe saga continues with Dr. Burel's children moving west. His son James led the Mississippi-bound wagons from South Carolina into another untamed frontier. Their first Christmas in Attalaville, Mississippi, was a grand celebration of their newfound life, only to have the New Year bring tragedy. Mississippi's Golden Years brought prosperity to the pioneers as landowners and independent farmers. Too soon the Civil War swept across their land leaving King Cotton reeling and survivors coping with shattered lives. Sympathetic eyes of the world watched as they searched for ways to survive the aftermath of total war. Lisbeth Burel struggled with the heartbreak of losing the war, her husband James, and her youngest son. Bracing to survive post-war defeat and economic ruination, Lisbeth and her oldest son learned to cope with the nagging pain and hatred of a useless war. With the burden of the world on William Riley's back, he turned to God and self-reliance to get them through the bleak future. Recovery was slow, and families joined hands to plant new fields of cotton, corn, and sorghum cane. Thirty years of worry and hard work turned William into an old, sick man long before his time. On a cold October morning, the stooped and frail man shuffled toward the sugarcane mill and furnace. Assuring the old family recipe and tradition continued, he taught his grandson how to cook molasses to be as smooth as silk. A couple months later William's family celebrated the biggest Christmas since the war. Sadly, two days later the celebration was marred as his thirteen proud children mourned the loss of their Pa. After the war, William Riley took great pain to instill the belief that they, and their kind, were the moral fiber offering the best hope for rebuilding the New South. And they were.
Low Country
Author: J. Nicole Jones
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1948226871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From horse thieves to hurricanes, from shattered Southern myths to fractured family ties, from Nashville to Myrtle Beach to Miami, Low Country is a lyrical, devastating, fiercely original memoir" of one family's changing fortunes in the Low Country of South Carolina (Justin Taylor, author of Riding with the Ghost). J. Nicole Jones is the only daughter of a prominent South Carolina family, a family that grew rich building the hotels and seafood restaurants that draw tourists to Myrtle Beach. But at home, she is surrounded by violence and capriciousness: a grandfather who beats his wife, a barman father who dreams of being a country music star. At one time, Jones's parents can barely afford groceries; at another, her volatile grandfather presents her with a fur coat. After a girlhood of extreme wealth and deep debt, of ghosts and folklore, of cruel men and unwanted spectacle, Jones finds herself face to face with an explosive possibility concerning her long-abused grandmother that she can neither speak nor shake. And through the lens of her own family's catastrophes and triumphs, Jones pays homage to the landscapes and legends of her childhood home, a region haunted by its history: Eliza Pinckney cultivates indigo, Blackbeard ransacks the coast, and the Gray Man paces the beach, warning of Hurricane Hazel.
Southern Nation
Author: David A. Bateman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 0691126496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil War No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal—and along the way remade the region and the nation in their own image. The central paradox of southern politics was how such a highly diverse region could be transformed into a coherent and unified bloc—a veritable nation within a nation that exercised extraordinary influence in politics. This book shows how this unlikely transformation occurred in Congress, the institutional site where the South's representatives forged a new relationship with the rest of the nation. Drawing on an innovative theory of southern lawmaking, in-depth analyses of key historical sources, and congressional data, Southern Nation traces how southern legislators confronted the dilemma of needing federal investment while opposing interference with the South's racial hierarchy, a problem they navigated with mixed results before choosing to prioritize white supremacy above all else. Southern Nation reveals how southern members of Congress gradually won for themselves an unparalleled role in policymaking, and left all southerners—whites and blacks—disadvantaged to this day. At first, the successful defense of the South's capacity to govern race relations left southern political leaders locally empowered but marginalized nationally. With changing rules in Congress, however, southern representatives soon became strategically positioned to profoundly influence national affairs.
What Happened to the Southern Way?
Author: Joey Nolan
Publisher:
Published: 2009-03-04
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9781441490018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Happened To the Southern Way? is a collection of thoughts and ramblings of one good ole' country boy who longs for the olden days when Southern hospitality and honoring one's heritage was a way of life. The author looks at the changes that have occurred in modern society and the repercussions of an end to those by-gone days. Reading this book will take one back to a time when respecting others, as well as oneself, was the norm not the exception. What Happened to the Southern Way? is one man's look at how "old times there" have been forgotten. If we are to save ourselves from society's present course into the future, we must look back at the Southern ways of Dixieland.
The Southern Way of Life
Author: Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 1469664992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class. Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes readers on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of "southern civilization" rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural "southern living." As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.
Fighting for Birds
Author: Dr. Mark Avery
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing
Published: 2012-07-02
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1907807306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark’s early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow – and his larger than life, yet quietly humane personality has provided the final tools in his own, unique, nature conservationists’ toolbox. In this book, Mark mixes a great many stories from his professional life at the RSPB with personal anecdotes and passionate arguments on past and present issues in bird and nature conservation. He shows us something of the many scientists whose work paves the way for conservation action, places domestic conservation into an international context, takes us behind the scenes to glimpse the politicians who have worked with him, or against him, along the way. Mark leaves us armed with practical tips and a guiding philosophy to take wildlife conservation though the troubled years that lie ahead. A personal, philosophical and political history of 25 years of bird conservation, this book provides an instructive and amusing read for all those who would like a glimpse into the birds and wildlife conservation world – what the issues are, what must be done, how it can be done, and the challenges, highs and lows involved.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
Author: Victor H. Green
Publisher: Colchis Books
Published:
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
