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Military Necessity: Civil-military Relations in the Confederacy

Military Necessity: Civil-military Relations in the Confederacy

Paul D. Escott

"Paul Escott is a brilliant scholar. I believe that this book is the most important work on t he Confederacy published in the last quarter- century. Escott's insights about the Confederate South transcend the nineteenth-century and, as good history ...
After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of ...

After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of ...

Paul D. Escott

In After Secession Paul Escott focuses on the challenge that the South's widespread political ideals presented to Jefferson Davis and on the way growing class resentments among citizens in the countryside affected the war effort.
Lincoln's Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican ...

Lincoln's Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican ...

Paul D. Escott

In this fascinating new book Paul Escott considers the evolution of the president’s thoughts on race in relation to three other, powerful--and often conflicting--voices.
Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North ...

Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North ...

Paul D. Escott

Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900 by Paul D. Escott Winner of the 1986 Mayflower Cup for Nonfiction, Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of North Carolina "[A] well-researched and thought-provoking survey of ...
The Story of Country Music

The Story of Country Music

Colin Escott

Colin Escott tells the real story of Country: of an independent Hillybilly folk music that became the nation's authentic voice and a global arena of superstars with all the excess that such fame creates.
Goodbye Mr Hollywood Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Goodbye Mr Hollywood Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

John Escott

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him.
The Cat Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library

The Cat Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library

John Escott

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. The Cat steals things from houses in Hollywood. He steals from movie stars and nobody can stop him. Or can they?
Girl on a Motorcycle - With Audio Starter Level Oxford ...

Girl on a Motorcycle - With Audio Starter Level Oxford ...

John Escott

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by John Escott.
A Full Report of the Case of Mastin V. Escott, Clerk, for ...

A Full Report of the Case of Mastin V. Escott, Clerk, for ...

Thomas Hay Sweet Escott

Containing All the Arguments on Both Sides and the Judgement Delivered by the Right Honorable Sir Herbert Jenner in the Arches Court of Canterbury, May 8th, 1841 : with an Appendix of Documents Frederick George Mastin, Thomas Hay ...
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

Thomas W. Laqueur

A case was brought against escott in the name of Frederick George Mastin, a Methodist class leader in Gedney, and made its way to the Court of Arches. There escott lost on more or less the same grounds that Wickes had lost. The court this  ...
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black ...

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black ...

Timothy B. Tyson

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Timothy B. Tyson. Craven ... In Race, Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Durden, edited by Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Charles L. Flynn Jr., 3–34.
A Southern Writer and the Civil War: The Confederate ...

A Southern Writer and the Civil War: The Confederate ...

Jeffery J. Rogers

Paul D. Escott, After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978). ; Harry P. Owens and James J. Cooke, eds., The Old South in the Crucible of War, (Jackson : ...
"What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, ...

"What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, ...

Paul D. Escott

Eaton, Jefferson Davis, 39–41; Felicity Allen, Jefferson Davis, 115–16. William J. Cooper Jr. views with caution the most positive descriptions of Davis's relations with his slaves because the details were given years after the war. But he also ...
Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave ...

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave ...

Paul D. Escott

The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave-master relationships; the conditions of slave life, including diet, physical treatment, working conditions, housing, forms of resistance, and black overseers; slave cultural institutions ...
The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture

The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture

Paul D. Escott

A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort. * Photographs, maps, and graphs enrich the text and illustrate changes in military ...
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION: Religion and the Populist Revolution

RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION: Religion and the Populist Revolution

Joe Creech

Ed. Jeffrey Crow, Paul Escott, and Charles Flynn, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989, 230—51. ———. Many Excellent People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. ———, ed. North Carolina Yeoman : ...
Detective Work

Detective Work

John Escott

Paul, a sixteen-year-old student, takes a summer job at a museum and becomes a suspect in the theft of a diamond necklace.
Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-century Slave ...

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-century Slave ...

Paul D. Escott

Analyzes the narratives of former slaves to determine their attitudes about plantation life, Black culture, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction
Paul

Paul

Geoffrey Harris

The SCM Core Text Paul provides an overview of the life and thought of the apostle Paul, but unlike many other works, it does not separate out Paul the theologian from Paul the missioner.
STREET'S INDIAN AND COLONIAL MERCANTILE DIRECTORY. 1869.

STREET'S INDIAN AND COLONIAL MERCANTILE DIRECTORY. 1869.

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385, St. Paul-street Mulholland & Baker, 419, St. Paul-street Pare, Hubert, 415, St . Paul-street Peck, Thomas & Co. 391, St. Paul-street Robertson, Thomas & Co. 379, St. Paul-st. Ross, P. S. & Brother, 10, Grey Nun-street Round, John & Son, ...
Did St Paul Get Jesus Right: The Gospel According to Paul

Did St Paul Get Jesus Right: The Gospel According to Paul

David Wenham

The Gospel According to Paul David Wenham. Did St Paul Get Jesus Right? The Gospel According to Paul David Wenham Copyright © 2010 David Wenham This edition copyright © 2010.
African Americans in the Reconstruction Era

African Americans in the Reconstruction Era

Chungchan Gao

719. William C. Harris, “The Creed of Carpetbaggers: The Case of Mississippi,” Journal of Southern History, May, 1974, p. 199. 720. Foner, op. cit., p. 296. 721. Ruth Currie-McDaniel, “The Wives of the Carpetbaggers,” in J. J. Crow, P. D. Escott ...
I Saw the Light: The Story of Hank Williams

I Saw the Light: The Story of Hank Williams

Colin Escott

Note: With mandolin, Dobro, guitar; dated by Bob Pinson to circa 1950. MOTHER IS GONE (1) MOTHER IS GONE (2) MOTHER IS GONE (3) A HOME IN HEAVEN (1) A HOME IN HEAVEN (2) Note: Version 2 possibly recorded later, per Bob ...
Hank Williams: The Biography

Hank Williams: The Biography

Colin Escott

Note: With mandolin, Dobro, guitar; dated by Bob Pinson to circa 1950. MOTHER IS GONE (1) MOTHER IS GONE (2) MOTHER IS GONE (3) A HOME IN HEAVEN (1) A HOME IN HEAVEN (2) Note: Version 2 possibly recorded later, per Bob ...
The Grand Ole Opry: The Making of an American Icon

The Grand Ole Opry: The Making of an American Icon

Colin Escott

This official guide chronicles the story of the birthplace of country music as told by the people who were there.
Sun Records: the brief history of the legendary recording label

Sun Records: the brief history of the legendary recording label

Colin Escott

Charts the ten-year history of the influential Memphis recording company, which introduced Johnny Cash, Bobby Bland, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and many others
Newspaper Chase

Newspaper Chase

John Escott

Follows thief Harry Black as he successfully steals a famous painting, then loses track of it.
Kidnap!

Kidnap!

John Escott

One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road A blue van is waiting for them.

who called from an unknown number?