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  • Sandhill Cities

    Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia

    by J. Mark Souther, David Goldfield ...
    Series series Making the Modern South
    Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmental history, J. Mark Souther narrates urban boosters’ hopes and actions in their pursuit of metropolitan stature in three midsized cities situated along the fall line running through the middle of the state. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa

    Shifting Mobilization

    by Tolulope Adeogun, Victor Adesiyan, Bamidélé Aly, Patricia Ogugua Anwuluorah, Jude Chinwuba Asike, Abidemi Abiola Isola, Auroara Nikkels, Kialee Nyiayaana, Soj Ojo, Olanrewaju Atanda Orija, Grayson Michael Posey, Maureen Ada Uche, Bradford Whitener, Meshack Owino, J. Mark Souther ...
    Series series Africa: Past, Present & Prospects
    Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization, edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. Jacquemin, questions whether identity is providing and sustaining power for elites, or fueling oppression and conflicts, being mobilized for exclusionary movements versus inclusive societal changes, or educating in ways that foster progress and development. Do aspects of African ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • New Orleans on Parade

    Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City

    by J. Mark Souther ...
    Series series Making the Modern South
    New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore and spiritualism, Mardi Gras festivities, and illicit sex commerce in revealing how New Orleans became a city that parades itself to visitors and residents alike. Stagnant between the Civil War and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Southern Journeys

    Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South

    by Brooks Blevins, Margaret A. Shannon, Stephen W. Taylor, Alecia P Long, Ted Ownby III, Harvey Newman III, Daniel S. Pierce III, June Hall McCash III, J. Mark Souther III, Brenden C. Martin III, Anne Mitchell Whisnant III0, Major Richard D. Starnes2, Harvey H. Jackson III3 ...
    The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economicsAnyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows the southern United States offers visitors a rich variety of scenic, cultural, and leisure activities. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Land Was Ours

    How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

    by Andrew W. Kahrl ...
    The coasts of today’s American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American–owned beaches in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • On the Road to Freedom

    A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

    by Charles E. Cobb Jr. ...
    This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wrestling with Moses

    How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

    by Anthony Flint ...
    The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Charleston

    Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

    by Susan Crawford ...
    An unflinching look at a beautiful, endangered, tourist-pummeled, and history-filled American city.At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Overground Railroad

    The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

    by Candacy A. Taylor ...
    This historical exploration of the Green Book offers "a fascinating [and] sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades" ( The New York Times Book Review).Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn't eat, sleep, or ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    by Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Boardwalk of Dreams:Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

    Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

    by Bryant Simon ...
    During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is ... Read more

    $29.69 USD