Georgia Odyssey

Author : James C. Cobb
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820335096
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgia Odyssey written by James C. Cobb and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia Odyssey is a lively survey of the state’s history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its current standing as an international business mecca, from the self-imposed isolation of its Jim Crow era to its role as host of the centennial Olympic Games and beyond, from its long reign as the linchpin state of the Democratic Solid South to its current dominance by the Republican Party. This new edition incorporates current trends that have placed Georgia among the country’s most dynamic and attractive states, fueled the growth of its Hispanic and Asian American populations, and otherwise dramatically altered its demographic, economic, social, and cultural appearance and persona. “The constantly shifting cultural landscape of contemporary Georgia,” writes James C. Cobb, “presents a jumbled panorama of anachronism, contradiction, contrast, and peculiarity.” A Georgia native, Cobb delights in debunking familiar myths about his state as he brings its past to life and makes it relevant to today. Not all of that past is pleasant to recall, Cobb notes. Moreover, not all of today’s Georgians are as unequivocal as the tobacco farmer who informed a visiting journalist in 1938 that “we Georgians are Georgian as hell.” That said, a great many Georgians, both natives and new arrivals, care deeply about the state’s identity and consider it integral to their own. Georgia Odyssey is the ideal introduction to our past and a unique and often provocative look at the interaction of that past with our present and future.

Author : Laughlin McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521011792
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voting Rights Odyssey written by Laughlin McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Author : Robert E. Burns
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343013
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

Author : Gordon L. Jones
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346853
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Odyssey written by Gordon L. Jones and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936–2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confederate artifacts including not just firearms and edged weapons but also flags, uniforms, and accoutrements. Today, Wray’s collection forms an integral part of the Atlanta History Center’s holdings of some eleven thousand Civil War artifacts. Confederate Odyssey tells the story of the Civil War through the Wray Collection. Analyzing the collection as material evidence, Gordon L. Jones demonstrates how a slave-based economy on the cusp of industrialization attempted to fight an industrial war. The broad range of the collection includes many rare or one-of-a-kind objects, such as a patent model and early inventions by gun maker George W. Morse, the bloodstained coat of a seventeen-year-old South Carolina soldier, battle flags made of cloth imported from England, and arms made in Georgia, the heart of the Confederacy’s burgeoning military-industrial complex. As Civil War history, Confederate Odyssey benefits from the study of material remains as it bridges the domains of professional scholars and amateur collectors such as Wray. The book tells of the stories, significance, and context of these artifacts to general readers and Civil War buffs alike. The Wray Collection is more than a gathering of relics; it is a tale of historical truths revealed in small details.

Author : Roger Rosen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgia written by Roger Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Third edition- This guide explores an extraordinarily beautiful country which at the same time has enormous strategic importance within the region- Comprehensive study of the country's religion, art and architecture- Literary excerpts provide an insight into a culture little known in the West.- Detailed section on local food, wine and Georgian hospitality- Overview of business environment- Authoritative history of Georgia from tribal rule to national independence- Useful websites- 101 color photographs- 22 maps and plans

Author : Steve Sherman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504030605
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Odyssey written by Steve Sherman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trail along on this 2,000-mile, bliss-and-blister adventure away from interstates and into backwoods America. Cross the Smokies, survive Virginia floods, buck New Jersey heat, walk the Presidentials of the White Mountains, and traverse a mile-long gorge. Then, 150 days later, stand victorious on the summit of Mount Katahdin in Maine. Appalachian Odyssey has everything—and then some—about the great hike. Inspiring for all ages whether you’re a backpacker or an armchair hiker. Appalachian Odyssey was awarded the Honorable Mention in the Outdoor Classic category by the 2009 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA). The Outdoor Classic Award is presented annually to an “unusual and lasting” book that over time has proven to be a significant work in the field.

Author : Shawnya Harris
Publisher : University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 9780915977468
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma Amos written by Shawnya Harris and published by University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos (1937-2020) was a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege in both the art world and society at large. This survey exhibition and catalogue, published and organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, include approximately 60 works from the beginnings of her career to the end of it, reflecting her experiences as a painter, printmaker, and weaver. Her large-scale canvases often incorporate African fabrics and semiautobiographical content, which are drawn from her personal odyssey as an artist, her interest in icons in art and world history and her sometimes tenuous engagement with these themes as a woman of color"--

Author : Jennifer E. Brooks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855782
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining the Peace written by Jennifer E. Brooks and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition

Author : University of Georgia Press
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820317991
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Georgia Guide written by University of Georgia Press and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgia Humanities Council presents a guidebook with cultural, historical, and regional coverage of Georgia

Author : Stephen Venables
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island at the Edge of the World written by Stephen Venables and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: