Georgia : a brief history / Christopher C. Meyers, David Williams.
Overview: 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 effor...
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Macon, Georgia :
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2023.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- 1: Natives, Europeans, and the founding of Georgia -- 2: Royal colony and revolution -- 3: Land frauds, lotteries, and Indian removal scandal -- 4: Planters, plain folk, and the enslaved -- 5: Secession and Civil War -- 6: Post-Civil War Georgia -- 7: The Progressive era and Jim Crow -- 8: The Depression, New Deal, and World War II -- 9: The Civil Rights era -- 10: Late Twentieth century Georgia -- 11: Twenty-first century Georgia -- Appendices -- Further reading -- Index. | |
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