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Shirley Jean Abbott grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1940s and 50s, the daughter of Alfred Bemont Abbott, affectionately known as “Hat.” Hat wasn’t a bookmaker in the literary sense. Rather, his craft was gambling, and his business was horse racing. (more …) $15.95 Paper |
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Looking past the triumphal aspects of the purchase, this book examines the “negotiations among peoples, nations and empires that preceded and followed the actual transfer of territory.” Its nine essays highlight the “commotion” the purchase stirred up—among nations, among Louisiana residents and newcomers, even among those who remained east of the Mississippi. (more …) April 2005 |
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The South in Modern America is a lively and illuminating account of the Southern experience since the end of Reconstruction. In the twentieth century, as in the nineteenth, the South has been the region most sharply at odds with the rest of the nation. (more …) 2001, 6"x9" |
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Elites have shaped southern life and communities, argues the distinguished historian Willard Gatewood. These essays—written by Gatewood's colleagues and former students in his honor—explore the influence of particular elites in the South from the American Revolution to the Little Rock integration crisis. (more …) 2002, 256 pages |
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The seminal study of the biracial movement of sharecroppers who in the 1930s stirred the national conscience to their plight of poverty and servitude. The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was founded in eastern Arkansas in 1934 to protest the New Deal's enrichment of Southern cotton barons at the expense of suffering sharecroppers, both black and white. Their courageous struggle, in the face of determined and often violent resistance from their landlords, is the subject of this thorough study from Donald H. Grubbs, which was published to critical acclaim in 1971. (more …) "It was in Arkansas—in the rich cotton land of the Mississippi Delta-that the desperation and hope of the early New Deal years led thousands of tenant farmers to do the unimaginable, to rebel and to organize in their own defense." —Dewey W. Grantham, Vanderbilt University 2000, 224 pages, 11 illustrations |
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Also by Margaret Bolsterli |
Comparable to Shirley Abbott's Womenfolks, Born in the
Delta is a valuable resource for those interested in southern history (more …) —Gayle Graham Yates, University of Minnesota 2000, 152 pages, 11 illustrations |
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In this revisionist study, Donald Holley marshals impressive statistical and narrative evidence to show that mechanization occurred in the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi only after the region's oversupply of small farmers was reduced. He thereby corrects a long-standing belief that mechanization "pushed" labor off the land. (more …) "This is truly an outstanding study . . . a large and detailed look at a very important topic." —Gilbert C. Fite 2000, 448 pages, 18 illustrations |
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Cultural Encounters in the Early South
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Back by popular demand and new in paperback, this spirited collection of nearly twenty papers celebrates the 450th anniversary of Hernando de Soto's epic expedition across the Southeast and West. The book focuses on research that challenges traditional interpretation of de Soto's entrada and travel route, particularly after the expedition crossed the Mississippi River. (more …) 1999, 320 pages |
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"The contradictions of sorrow and humor. . . death and salvation, despair and hope, calm and panic—all reveal the human dimension" in this compassionate and unforgettable portrait of common people confronting a great natural disaster. 1996, 224 pages |
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Each address is accompanied by a brief biographical sketch of the speaker, who is placed squarely within the milieu of those unfolding events characterizing the period. 1992, 496 pages, 40 illustrations |
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