Old Age and Political Behavior
Old Age and Political Behavior

Author: Frank A. Pinner

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-08-19

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0520372743

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Hetch Hetchy Project
Hetch Hetchy Project

Author: Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy

Publisher:

Published: 1930

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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General report of the dams, reservoirs, and aqueduct project to bring water from the Hetch Hetchy Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to San Francisco. It described the construction, dams, elevation changes, tunnels, electric power system, and finance. With elevation graphs.

Barber of Natchez
Barber of Natchez

Author: Edwin Adams Davis

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1973-06-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780807102121

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In The Barber of Natchez, Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan tell the remarkable story of William Johnson, a slave who rose to freedom, business success, and high community standing in the heart of the South—all before 1850. Emancipated as a young boy in 1820, Johnson became a barber’s apprentice and later opened several profitable barber shops of his own. As his wealth grew, he expanded into real estate and acquired large tracts of nearby farm and timber land. The authors explore in detail Johnson’s family, work, and social life, including his friendships with people of both races. They also examine his wanton murder and the resulting trial of the man accused of shooting him. More than the story of one individual, the narrative also offers compelling insight into the southern code of honor, the apprentice system, and the ownership of slaves by free blacks. Based on Johnson’s two-thousand-page diary, letters, and business records, this extraordinary biography reveals the complicated life of a freedman in Mississippi and a new perspective on antebellum Natchez.