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Red clay, white water & blues : a history of Columbus, Georgia /

"This is the first comprehensive history of the second-largest city in Georgia. It begins with the city's founding in the 1820s and brings its story to the present, examining economic, political, social, and cultural change over time. Virginia E. Causey ... focuses on three defining charac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Causey, Virginia E. (Virginia Estes), 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Stepping to the Music of Jingling Dimes": A Trading Town on the Chattahoochee
  • The "Last Battle" and "Black Reconstruction": The Civil War and Its Aftermath
  • "Plethoric, Laborious, Well-Fed, Jolly, and Complacent": Politics and Economics, 1880-1920
  • Lynching, Industrial Education, Babe Ruth, and Christian Communism: Social Change at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • The Klan and Coca-Cola: The Roaring Twenties
  • Columbus in the 1930s and 1940s: Depression and World War
  • Violence, Direct Action, Negotiation: The Struggle for Civil Rights, 1944-1975
  • From Optimism to Malaise: Economics, Politics, and Culture, 1950s-1980s
  • Renaissance: Columbus since the 1990s.