Georgia A Brief History

Name: Georgia A Brief History
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ISBN: 9780881462791

ISBN-10: 0881462799

ISBN-13: 9780881462791

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christopher C. Meyers, David Williams

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Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Indians to the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, Georgia: A Brief History surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly.Beginning with the earliest Indian 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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction



Natives, Europeans, and the Founding of Georgia



Royal Colony and Revolution



Land Frauds, Lotteries, and Indian Removal Scandal



Planters, Plain Folk, and the Enslaved



Secession and Civil War



Post-Civil War Georgia



The Progressive Era and Jim Crow



The Depression, New Deal, and World War II



The Civil Rights Era



Modern Georgia


Appendices


Further Reading


Index