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Author : Marc R. Matrana
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1578069009
The story of a Louisiana mansion, a planter�s empire, and a preservation battle lost to bulldozers
Author : Marc R. Matrana
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781604734690
The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home. From plantations that were destroyed by natural disaster such as Alabama's Forks of Cypress, to those that were intentionally demolished such as Seven Oaks in Louisiana and Mount Brilliant in Kentucky, Matrana resurrects these lost mansions. Including plantations throughout the South as well as border states, Matrana carefully tracks the histories of each from the earliest days of construction to the often contentious struggles to preserve these irreplaceable historic treasures. Lost Plantations of the South explores the root causes of demise and provides understanding and insight on how lessons learned in these sad losses can help prevent future preservation crises. Capturing the voices of masters and mistresses alongside those of slaves, and featuring more than one hundred elegant archival illustrations, this book explores the powerful and complex histories of these cardinal homes across the South.
Author : Catherine Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108477093
Details how Americans' perceptions of the institution of slavery changed between the end of the Civil War and the onset of World War I.
Author : Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471114779
America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States and the USSR acted out the world's rising tensions in its island nations. Meanwhile the leaders of these nations - the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raúl; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture - had ambitions of their own. Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, and then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been. Red Heatis an authoritative and eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.
Author : Peter D. Griggs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527548824
Before 1950, Australians were the world’s highest consumers of tea per capita. This book tells the story of how tea emerged as the national beverage in the Australian colonies during the nineteenth century, and explores why Australians consumed so much of the beverage for so long. Special attention is devoted to analysing the evolution of the Australian tea distribution network, especially the marketing strategies used by the tea traders to promote their products. Other topics examined here include the development of tea rituals such as afternoon tea and high tea and their role in Australian society, the local manufacture of teawares, the establishment of tea rooms and the emergence of a tea growing industry in Australia after 1960. The first comprehensive account of the history of tea in Australia, this book will be of particular interest to individuals interested in Australian history, economic and social history, and food history.
Author : Cather Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803277243
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century--the cultures that shaped Willa Cather's childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held values--are addressed in her fiction. In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cather's life or writing the particular cultural formations, emotions, and conflicts of value she absorbed from the atmosphere of her distinct historical moment; their ten colleagues offer a compelling set of case studies that articulate the manifold ways that Cather learned from, built upon, or resisted models provided by particular nineteenth-century writers, works, or artistic genres. Taken together with its Cather Studies predecessor, Willa Cather and Modern Cultures, this volume reveals Cather as explorer and interpreter, sufferer and master of the transition from a Victorian to a Modernist America.
Author : Mary Louise Contini Gordon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000986204
Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis. Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles is to encourage readers to interview family members, but also others outside the family unit, and to produce a family history in whatever format works. The book illustrates this through the inclusion of many unusual formats and stories uncovered. The book is divided into a number of themes that emerged through the analysis of numerical questionnaire and narrative interview data. Parts I, II, and III cover changing family demography, case studies, and factors such as memory, emotion, and ethics. Part IV offers a pliable process and practice guide with input and examples from interviews. It also discusses developing approaches to presenting oral histories from both oral historians and other interviewers and writers, such as journalists. With case studies as well as example guidelines and templates, this volume is ideal both for academics interested in family history as well as professional genealogists and families themselves.
Author : David Lindenmayer,Jerry Franklin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643100053
Towards Forest Sustainability is a collection of practical essays by some of the world’s leading forest ecologists and managers from the United States of America, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. The authors describe the changes that have taken place in forest management – highlighting what worked, what didn’t, and the lessons that have been learned. This unique set of essays documents the drivers of the change in the logging industry and the resulting outcomes. It provides real-world insights from an international perspective into government policy, industry concerns, and conservation and biodiversity issues.
Author : Marc R. Matrana,Robin S. Lattimore,Michael W. Kitchens
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496817648
Few things evoke thoughts and memories of the past more than a house from a bygone era, and few places are identified and symbolized more by historic dwellings than the American South. Plantation houses built with columned porticos and wide porches, stout chimneys, large rooms, and sweeping staircases survive as legacies of both a storied and troubled past. These homes are at the heart of a complex web of human relationships that have shaped the social and cultural heritage of the region for generations. Despite their commanding appearance, the region's plantation houses have proven to be fragile relics of history, vulnerable to decay, neglect, and loss. Today, only a small percentage of the South's antebellum treasures survive. In Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South, historians Marc R. Matrana, Robin S. Lattimore, and Michael W. Kitchens explore almost fifty houses built before the Civil War that have been authentically restored or preserved. Methodically examined are restoration efforts that preserve not only homes and other structures, but also the stories of those living in or occupying those homes. The authors discuss the challenges facing specific plantation homes and their preservation. Featuring over 275 stunning photographs, as well as dozens of firsthand accounts and interviews with those involved in the preservation of these historic properties, Southern Splendor describes the leading role the South has played, since the nineteenth century, in the historic preservation movement in this country.
Author : John S. Sledge
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611172362
Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than one hundred of the best pieces culled from Sledge’s total output of approximately seven hundred columns. Numerous classic authors are celebrated in these pages, including Homer, Plato, Gibbon, Melville, Proust, Conrad, Cather, and Steinbeck as well as modern writers such as Walter Edgar, Tom Franklin, and Eugene Walter. While some of the essays are relatively straightforward book reviews, others present meditative and deeply personal perspectives on the author’s literary experiences such as serving on the jury in the play version To Kill a Mockingbird; spending the night alone in a Jesuit college library’s venerable stacks; rambling through funky New Orleans bookshops; talking to Square Books owner Richard Howarth while overlooking the Oxford, Mississippi courthouse; rereading Treasure Island on the shores of Mobile Bay; and remembering a beloved father’s favorite books. Engaging and spirited, Southern Bound represents the critical art at its most accessible and will prove entertaining fare for anyone who loves the written word.
Author : Paul F. Stahls
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781893619975
An illustrated history of the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author : Robert H. Ruth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Brush
ISBN : MINN:31951D02889917H
Author : Russell C. Klein MD,Victoria Barreto Harkin Ma
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452030944
Author : Constance Fenimore Woolson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1572333537
As these pieces demonstrate, Woolson offered keen observations on the issues she cared most deeply about, namely the cultural and political transformation of the United States in the wake of the Civil War, the status of women writers and artists in the nineteenth century, and the growing implications of nationalism and imperialism." "This collection features selections from each of the three distinct periods of Woolson's career and includes a chronology of her life and travels. Focusing primarily on Woolson's short stories, editors Victoria Brehm and Sharon L. Dean also include a representative letter, poem, and travel sketch for each section."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C173478