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Author : Georgia Writers' Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Georgia
ISBN : UIUC:30112119394523
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Georgia
ISBN : LCCN:84110988
Author : Federal W Works Progress Administra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1558883606
Author : Georgia Writers' Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : LCCN:54010344
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0872497062
Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623760106
compiled and written by workers of the Writer®s program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Georgia ; sponsored by the Georgia Board of Education.
Author : Federal Writers Project,Federal Writers' Project Staff,Writers Program Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0781210100
Bonded Leather binding
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342096
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Georgia describes the rich historical and cultural background of America’s Peach State. With varied and interesting photos, the guide gives readers a real taste as to what sweet southern living was like in the 1940’s, all the way from the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains down to the roaring Mississippi River valley.
Author : James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801859867
Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.
Author : Lawrence H. Larsen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813194745
Operating under an outmoded system of urban development and faced by the vicissitudes of the Civil War and Reconstruction, southerners in the nineteenth century built a network of cities that met the needs of their society. In this pioneering exploration of that intricate story, Lawrence H. Larsen shows that in the antebellum period, southern entrepreneurs built cities in layers to facilitate the movement of cotton. First came the colonial cities, followed by those of the piedmont, the New West, the Gulf Coast, and the interior. By the Civil War, cotton could move by a combination of road, rail, and river through a network of cities—for example, from Jackson to Memphis to New Orleans to Europe. In the Gilded Age, building on past practices, the South continued to make urban gains. Men like Henry Grady of Atlanta and Henry Watterson of Louisville used broader regional objectives to promote their own cities. Grady successfully sold Atlanta, one of the most southern of cities demographically, as a city with a northern outlook; Watterson tied Louisville to national goals in railroad building. The New South movement did not succeed in bringing the region to parity with the rest of the nation, yet the South continued to rise along older lines. By 1900, far from being a failure in terms of the general course of American development, the South had created an urban system suited to its needs, while avoiding the promotional frenzy that characterized the building of cities in the North. Based upon federal and local sources, this book will become the standard work on nineteenth-century southern urbanization, a subject too long unexplored.
Author : University of Georgia Press
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0820317985
The Georgia Humanities Council presents a guidebook with cultural, historical, and regional coverage of Georgia
Author : John D. Bennett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786490783
Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gazetteer provides information on nearly 1600 sites, including not only locations of battles and skirmishes but also hospitals, prison camps, military academies, factories and navy yards, both North and South. Also listed are islands, rivers, creeks, fords, ferries and railroad stations, as well as many temporary fort and camp names. From Abbeville, Georgia, where Jefferson Davis stopped in May 1865 days before his capture near Irwinville, to Yorktown, Virginia, which was besieged by General George B. McClellan at the start of the Peninsula campaign, entries explain the origin of each placename and its wartime connections. An appendix listing town and city population figures from the 1860 census completes this informative supplement for Civil War scholars and enthusiasts.
Author : Cathy J. Kaemmerlen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467143554
Ever wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone's throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can't be...that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can't help pondering the seemingly endless supply of head-scratching place names that dot this state. Luckily, the intrepid Cathy Kaemmerlen stands ready to unravel the enigmas--Enigma is, in fact, a Georgia town--behind the state's most astonishing appellations. Cow Hell, Gum Pond, Boxankle and Lord a Mercy Cove? One town owes its name to a random sign that fell off a railcar, while another memorializes a broken bone suffered by a cockfight spectator. And just how many place names were inspired by insolent mules? Come on in to find out.
Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226357836
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were hungry for the written word. With an eye to this market and as a response to unemployment, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers' Project. They produced the Project's American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. The series unintentionally diversified American literary culture's cast of characters--promoting women, minority, and rural writers--while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes.
Author : Hoke P. Kimball,Bruce Henson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476625935
This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
