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We love the South! The favorite places, foods, writers, singers, sayings, and most of all, the experiences and emotions that make a Southerner, well, Southern. Southern As It Gets, a charming book of lists that will be the perfect gift for those who grew up in the South, currently live in the South, or wished they lived in the South. Written by New York Times bestselling author H. Jackson Brown, a true Southern gentleman.

Happiness. --- Southern States

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"Trac[ing] the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world, Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long trans-Altlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic scope, the scholars contributing to this volume call for a sea-facing history of the South, one that connects that terrestrial region to this expansive maritime history. By bringing the study up to the 20th century in the collection's final section, the editors, Jacob Steere-Williams and Blake C. Scott, make the case for the lasting influence of these port cities-and Atlantic world history-on the economy, society, and culture of the contemporary South"--

Port cities --- History. --- United States --- Southern States

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"Regenerating Dixieis the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention. Instead, it was a multifaceted process that influenced, and was influenced by, environmental alterations, political machinations, business practices, and social matters. Although it generally hewed to national and global patterns, southern electrification charted a distinctive and instructive path and, despite orthodoxies to the contrary, stood at the cutting edge of electrification from the late 1800s onward. Its story speaks to the ways southern experiences with electrification reflected and influenced larger American models of energy development. Inasmuch as the South has something to teach us about the history of American electrification, electrification also reveals things about the South's past. The electric industry was no mere accessory to the "New South" agenda -- the ongoing project of rehabilitating Dixie after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Electricity powered industrialism, consumerism, urban growth, and war. It moved people across town, changed land -- and waterscapes, stoked racial conflict, sparked political fights, and lit homes and farms. Electricity underwrote people's daily lives across a century of southern history. But it was not simply imposed on the South. In fact, one Regenerating Dixie's central lessons is that people have always mattered in energy history. The story of southern electrification is part of the broader struggle for democracy in the American past and includes a range of expected and unexpected actors and events. It also offers insights into our current predicaments with matters of energy and sustainability." --

E-books --- Electric power --- Electrification --- History. --- Southern States.

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"This book traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the Southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship treats the gold rush as self-contained, in which aside from Cherokee Removal (admittedly no small thing) and a supply of miners to California in 1849, the gold rush had no other effects. In fact, the Southern gold rush was a significant force. The pressure brought by the gold rush for Cherokee Removal opened the path of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, which created both Atlanta and Chattanooga. Iron makers, attracted by the gold rush, built the most elaborate iron-making operations in the Deep South near this railroad, in Georgia's Etowah Valley; some of these iron makers became the industrial talent in the fledgling post-bellum city of Birmingham, Alabama. This book explicates the networks of associations and interconnections across these varied industries in a way that newly interprets the development of the southeastern United States. The book also reconsiders the meaning of Joseph E. Brown, Georgia's influential Civil War governor, political heavyweight, and wealthy industrialist. Brown was nurtured in the Etowah Valley by people who celebrated mining, industrialization, banking, land speculation, and railroading as a pathway to a prosperous future. The book explains Brown's familial, religious, and social ties to these people, clarifies the origins of Brown's interest in convict labor, explains how he used his knowledge acquired in the gold rush to enrich himself as he marketed the Canton Copper Mine, and how after the Civil War Brown, aided by his sons, dominated and modeled an enriching crony capitalism with far-reaching implications"--

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The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, standing 198.49 feet, is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. From 1803, when the first Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was built, to today, it cast its light over the waters off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, also called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Its history--stretching from Augustin-Jean Fresnel's lens laboratory in France to the beaches of Hatteras Island where the lighthouse keepers labored--includes war, shipwrecks, hurricanes, and cutting-edge technology. Due to politics, funding, and its precarious location, it took great effort to erect and protect a lighthouse built on a barrier island. The supporters and caretakers were many, including Alexander Hamilton in the 1700s and children donating coins to a statewide preservation campaign in 1982. In the 21st century, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse continues to send out its beam to mariners.

NATURAL DISASTERS --- SOUTHERN STATES --- NATURE --- HISTORY --- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (N.C.). --- Lighthouses.