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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 ...
Lincoln's Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican ...
Paul D. EscottIn 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.
After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of ...
Paul D. EscottIn 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.
Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North ...
Paul D. EscottPower 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 ...
Detective Work
John EscottPaul, a sixteen-year-old student, takes a summer job at a museum and becomes a suspect in the theft of a diamond necklace.
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
Thomas W. LaqueurA 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 ...
Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-century Slave ...
Paul D. EscottAnalyzes the narratives of former slaves to determine their attitudes about plantation life, Black culture, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction
The Story of Country Music
Colin EscottColin 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.
A Full Report of the Case of Mastin V. Escott, Clerk, for ...
Thomas Hay Sweet EscottContaining 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 ...
Girl on a Motorcycle - With Audio Starter Level Oxford ...
John EscottA 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.
Goodbye Mr Hollywood Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
John EscottA 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 Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture
Paul D. EscottA 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 ...
The Cat Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library
John EscottA 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?
A Southern Writer and the Civil War: The Confederate ...
Jeffery J. RogersPaul 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, ...
Paul D. EscottEaton, 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 ...
Paul D. EscottThe 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 ...
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION: Religion and the Populist Revolution
Joe CreechEd. 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 : ...
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black ...
Timothy B. TysonRobert 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.
Paul
Geoffrey HarrisThe 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.
Newspaper Chase
John EscottFollows thief Harry Black as he successfully steals a famous painting, then loses track of it.
The Grand Ole Opry: The Making of an American Icon
Colin EscottThis official guide chronicles the story of the birthplace of country music as told by the people who were there.
Kidnap!
John EscottOne cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road A blue van is waiting for them.
Walking Between the Times: Paul's Moral Reasoning
PreviewJ. Paul Sampley provides a guidebook for all who want to understand Paul's thought world, his moral reasoning, and the resources for deliberation that Paul considers available to believers.
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