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Georgia - A Brief History, Second Edition, Expanded and Updated
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Georgia - A Brief History, Second Edition, Expanded and Updated
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Here is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from
the early Native Americans into the twenty-first century. Based on
the most recent research, this second edition surveys the people
and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads
easily and flows effortlessly. Beginning with the earliest Native
American settlements, the story tells of first contacts between
area natives and Spanish from Florida, British from Carolina, and
James Oglethorpe leading the effort to found a colony called
Georgia. That colony passed out of the British Empire during the
American Revolution, a conflict that was as much a civil war as a
war for independence. In the following decades, the Creek and
Cherokee were driven out as Georgia was transformed into a cotton
kingdom dominated by a minority of slaveholders, who finally sought
to make slavery perpetual in a war that often pitted Georgians
against each other. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the state
struggled with the consequences of the conflict, political, social,
and economic. The postwar years were highlighted by economic
stagnation, questions over the meaning of freedom, and one-party
politics. Race relations pervaded the state's history after the
Civil War and those struggles are traced from Reconstruction to Jim
Crow to the Civil Rights Era and twenty-first century voter
suppression. In the latter half of the twentieth century, and
carrying into the twenty-first, Georgia drifted away from the
provincialism that characterized its history and moved toward
modernity.
General
Imprint: |
Mercer University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Christopher C. Meyers
• David Williams
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Pages: |
255 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-88146-892-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-88146-892-4 |
Barcode: |
9780881468922 |
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