-- Menendez was the founder of the nation's oldest city, St. Augustine-- Complete and accurate biography of a leader whose ambition drove him to pursue adventure and conquest-- For history and biograp
A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival and dignity in a distinctly male-dominated society, it
For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the d
“Finally, a comprehensive set of translations now exists for the enigmatic Calusa. Hann and Marquardt have assembled an exhaustive and diverse set of documents which locates the Calusa in their rightf
-- Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe converged-- Essays in both Spanish and
The Southern belle lives on, in a world of??proprieties and protocols that would shame the Royal??Family (and have). An uproarious guide to the??manners, mores, and mystique of the legendary ladies of
Ever since its publication in 1941, The Mind of the South has been recognized as a path-breaking work of scholarship and as a literary achievement of enormous eloquence and insight in its own right. F
Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society tha
In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley ?an isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains. Sheppar
Papers presented at a symposium at the annual meeting of the South-eastern Archaeological Conference, held in Nashville, Tenn., November 1986, explore the wide range of societal organization during th
The author describes his archeological excavation of a seventeenth-century English settlement in Virginia and his discovery of evidence of the early colonial way of life
In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an isolated subsistence region that served as a stronghold of Jeffersonian Republicanism into a mature cotto
-- Anthology of writings about Florida -- a historical and literary introduction to our state's rich and diverse culture-- From early Spanish myths and Seminole and African-American folktales to the l
First published in 1977, A History of Georgia has become the standard history of the state. Documenting events from the earliest discoveries by the Spanish to the rapid changes the state has undergone
An astute and stimulating account of the people and forces that shaped the development of Georgia and, by implication, other areas of the South, The Creation of Modern Georgia is a provocative reinter
