The Genesis of Georgia
Author: Jefferson Randolph Anderson
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 55
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Author: Jefferson Randolph Anderson
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 55
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh McCall
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 590
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Bacon Stevens
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 545
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Verner W. Crane
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Published: 1921*
Total Pages: 69
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Fenwick Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780820313931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive history of the German-speaking settlers who emigrated to the Georgia colony from Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, Austria, and adjacent regions. Known collectively as the Georgia Dutch, they were the colony's most enterprising early settlers, and they played a vital role in gaining Britain's toehold in a territory also coveted by Spain and France. The main body of the book is a chronological account of the Georgia Dutch from their earliest arrival in 1733 to their dispersal and absorption into what was, by 1783, an Anglo-American populace. Underscoring the harsh daily life of the common settler, George Fenwick Jones also highlights noteworthy individuals and events. He traces recurrent themes, including tensions between the realities of the settlers' lives and the aspirations and motivations of the colony's trustees and supporters; the web of relations between German- and English-speaking whites, African Americans, and Native Americans; and early signs of the genesis of a distinctly new and American sensibility. Three summary chapters conclude The Georgia Dutch. Merging new material with information from previous chapters, Jones offers the most complete depiction to date of Georgia Dutch culture and society. Included are discussions of religion; health and medicine; education; welfare and charity; industry, agriculture, trade, and commerce; Native-American affairs; slavery; domestic life and customs; the arts; and military and legal concerns. Based on twenty-five years of research with primary documents in Europe and the United States, The Georgia Dutch is a welcome reappraisal of an ethnic group whose role in colonial history has, over time, been unfairly minimized.
Author: Kenneth Coleman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 082031269X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1977, A History of Georgia has become the standard history of the state. Documenting events from the earliest discoveries by the Spanish to the rapid changes the state has undergone with the civil rights era, the book gives broad coverage to the state's social, political, economic, and cultural history. This work details Georgia's development from past to present, including the early Cherokee land disputes, the state's secession from the Union, cotton's reign, Reconstruction, the Bourbon era, the effects of the New Deal, Martin Luther King, Jr., the fall of the county-unit system, and Jimmy Carter's election to the presidency. Also noted are the often-overlooked contributions of Indians, blacks, and women. Each imparting his own special knowledge and understanding of a particular period in the state's history, the authors bring into focus the personalities and events that made Georgia what it is today. For this new edition, available in paperback for the first time, A History of Georgia has been revised to bring the work up through the events of the 1980s. The bibliographies for each section and the appendixes have also been updated to include relevant scholarship from the last decade.
Author: Hugh McCall
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucian Lamar Knight
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 682
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Colcock Jones
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gwendolyn Brock Waldorf
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an indepth study of Grady County, Georgia which was created in 1905. Located in southwest Georgia and frequently known as the "wiregrass" region, it was created from Decatur and Thomas Counties where politics and interesting personalites were involved in the county's creation.