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Middle Georgia and the Approach of Modernity - Fred R. van Hartesveldt - Bog

- Essays on Race, Culture and Daily Life, 1885-1945

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By the eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a rural region transitioning from the aftermath of the Reconstruction Era into the modern age. This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African Americans struggled for self-betterment against the rise of Jim Crow. Women striving to overcome gender barriers found a hero in a pioneering female pilot. The government worked to protect communities from the influenza pandemic of 1918. Fighting boll weevils and declining cotton prices, farmers diversified crops and developed a national pimento pepper industry.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781476666907
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 195
  • Udgivet:
  • 28. juni 2018
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x10 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 263 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 7. december 2024
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By the eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a rural region transitioning from the aftermath of the Reconstruction Era into the modern age. This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African Americans struggled for self-betterment against the rise of Jim Crow. Women striving to overcome gender barriers found a hero in a pioneering female pilot. The government worked to protect communities from the influenza pandemic of 1918. Fighting boll weevils and declining cotton prices, farmers diversified crops and developed a national pimento pepper industry.

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