Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1019
ISBN: 9780881468243
Price: $37.00
Until now, a daily account (1,630 days) of Georgia's social, political, economic, and military events during the Civil War did not exist. During the 160 years since the conflict's termination, many fine accounts of wartime Georgia have rolled off various presses. Each daily entry derives from a quill scrolling the parchment or a press imprinting type on the day the activity occurred. Maps, footnotes, a detailed index, and bibliographical references will aid those wanting more.
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Product Code: H614
ISBN: 9780865548114
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $35.00
The King family, spread between Roswell, Georgia, and Virginia, faced the perils of the Civil War on different fronts. These correspondences will captivate the reader as they cover Barrington S. King, a Lieutenant Colonel in Cobb’s Legion, leaves his home in Georgia to fight in Virginia.
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Product Code: P724
ISBN: 9780881469844
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $25.00
DECEPTIVE SPEED vividly tells the compelling, inspiring story of Eddie Lee Ivery's journey from a tiny ramshackle home with no plumbing, to a prestigious engineering university, to an NFL storied franchise--where he played for the team's venerated former superstar Bart Starr, who struggled to field a winning team as head coach. After two devastating injuries to the same knee, how did Ivery will his way to a 9-year NFL career? How did he become homeless? How did he climb out of his self-destructive drug addiction?
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P645
ISBN: 9780881468465
Price: $25.00
DIARY OF A ROCK AND ROLL TOUR MANAGER chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the day-to-day touring of The Allman Brothers Band from 1970 to 1976, detailing their rise from obscurity to the absolute pinnacle of rock super stardom. Perkins shepherded the band from their lowly beginnings in smoke-filled bars to six figure payoffs before hundreds of thousands of fans in outdoor venues.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H957
ISBN: 9780881466805
Price: $35.00
Local church history is important. What great thinkers have written and what denominational bodies have declared in resolutions and organizational ministries are important, but "lived religion" at the ground level provides a fuller picture of the story of the Christian faith. The fifty-year (1967-2017) story of Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, is one of those narratives that richly adds to our understanding of how faith has been lived in a particular setting.
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Product Code: H755
ISBN: 9780881461077
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $45.00
Domestic Slavery originated in the nineteenth century as a literary debate. The chapters were originally the letters of Southern pastor Richard Fuller and Northern educator Francis Wayland, with each defending their respective positions. Historians of Southern religion consider Domestic Slavery to be one of the major contributions to the nineteenth-century debate over the peculiar institution. This critical edition of Domestic Slavery, which includes annotations and an appendix of related documents, represents the first reprint of this important work to be published since the mid-nineteenth century.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P536
ISBN: 9780881465921
Price: $30.00
Amidst a proliferation of scholarly literature about Islam in the United States, very little attention has been given to sports among Muslim Americans. While books about professional Muslim athletes can be found, this is the first book to investigate Muslim American sports at the local level, looking at Muslim basketball leagues, sports programs at mosques and Islamic schools, and sports events hosted by Muslim organizations.
Drawing upon personal interviews and observations as well as scholarly sources, this book demonstrates that participation in sports activities plays a vital role in strengthening Islamic piety and fellowship, and in connecting Muslims with non-Muslims in post-9/11 America.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1043
ISBN: 9780881469233
Price: $45.00
Volume II documents a nineteenth-century literary celebrity's decision to commit herself to the cause of woman's rights. The first volume of this series revealed a feminist sensibility in the subtexts of Elizabeth Oakes Smith's early poetry, fiction, and memoir. Volume II traces the sharp turn in her career at mid-century: a multidimensional effort involving newspaper editorial, a lecture career extending as far as Louisville and Chicago, and throughout these efforts, an attempt to garner the support to inaugurate the first journal owned and edited by women dedicated to the cause of woman's empowerment.
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Product Code: HH1056
ISBN: 9780881469943
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Price: $45.00
The third volume of ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH: SELECTED WRITINGS offers readers selections from several of her longer works written between 1842 and the late 1880s: THE WESTERN CAPTIVE (1842), one of the first "paperback" novels sold in the United States; BERTHA AND LILY (1854), a novel featuring one of the first "fallen" heroines in the sentimental tradition; THE NEWSBOY, Oakes Smith's second novel of 1854 and her deepest foray into the lives of the working poor; “The Queen of Tramps” (1874-1888), a complete novel left in manuscript at the time of her death; and OLD NEW YORK (1853), a historical melodrama bringing a female lead character to the center of late-seventeenth century colonial rebellion in New York City.
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Product Code: P123
ISBN: 9780865544772
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H969
ISBN: 9780881466935
Price: $40.00
This unique natural history exploration of Florida by members and correspondents of America’s first research natural history museum, Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences, reveals the science of discovery and collection of unknown plants, animals, fossils, and artifacts of ancient peoples. The early naturalists, Thomas Say, Titian Peale, Thomas Nuttall, John James Audubon, John LeConte, John Torrey, Hardy Croom, Alvan Chapman, Asa Gray, Clarence Moore, Henry Fowler, Henry Pilsbry, Francis Harper, and others were inspired to explore Florida in the tracks of William Bartram, the colonial explorer of British East and West Florida and author in 1791 of TRAVELS.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H923
ISBN: 9780881465891
Price: $29.00
Though far from the major theaters of battle, Floridians experienced every facet of the Civil War. While most Florida soldiers fought for the Confederacy, many Floridians, including former slaves, enlisted with the Union. Families were divided and partisanship tore communities apart. Some Floridians produced salt, beef, and supplies for the Confederacy; others profited during Union occupations. The one notable battle fought in Florida, the Battle of Olustee, was disproportionately bloody.
FLORIDA'S CIVIL WAR is a true tale of survival, ingenuity, and opportunism.
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