Publisher: Mercer Universtiy Press
Product Code: P655
ISBN: 9780881468656
Price: $16.00
Daniel Bigman's research places Ocmulgee's development in the context of other large Early Mississippian mound centers and communities in the geographic region.
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By author: Dominic Day Series edited by: S. Heather Duncan
Publisher: Mercer Universtiy Press
Product Code: P654
ISBN: 9780881468649
Price: $16.00
Every year, thousands of visitors climb the tallest of the ancient Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon, Georgia. Gazing fifty-five feet down from the top of this Great Temple Mound gives a sense of the might and mystery of the earliest Southeastern American civilization.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P670
ISBN: 9780881468915
Price: $25.00
During an eight-month period in 1977 and 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia, was terrorized by a mysterious serial killer who raped and ritualistically strangled seven elderly women in one of the community’s finer neighborhoods.
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Product Code: HH1054
ISBN: 9780881469691
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $45.00
R. William Johnstone examines Wyche Fowler's career in winning election to and serving in the U.S. House and Senate, including his pivotal role in the Nicaragua Contra war and the 1990 budget summit. The Georgian served as a coalition-builder and negotiator, playing important roles in passing such landmark bills as the Social Security Amendments of 1983, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Highlighted are examples of Fowler's well-known storytelling, which has been a major part of his efforts to reach out and bond with others, including constituents and colleagues.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P626
ISBN: 9780881467918
Price: $24.00
Andrew M. Manis recruited clergy from a broad spectrum of interracial, interreligious, and interdenominational communities of faith in Macon, Georgia, to address their congregations on the perennially controversial theme of racial reconciliation. Acknowledging the truism that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning remains the "most segregated hour" of the week, Manis argues that neither White nor Black congregations are familiar with what the other hears about race on the other side of the color line. Fourteen clergy bring their scriptural interpretations to bear on the longstanding problem of White supremacy in American life and culture.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1027
ISBN: 9780881468588
Price: $45.00
Brigadier General Samuel Elbert's story spans most of Georgia's history in the eighteenth century. He is best remembered for his role as a commander of Georgia troops during the American Revolution. Before the war, he was a prominent Savannah merchant and a member of the General Assembly when James Wright was Georgia's governor.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P671
ISBN: 9780881468922
Price: $30.00
Here is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans into the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, this second edition surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1048
ISBN: 9780881469455
Price: $27.00
Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, has been one of the fastest growing counties in the nation since the 1980s. ABOVE AND BEYOND tells the story of that growth through one of its most significant families--the Masons.
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