How Georgia Got Her Names
Author | : Hal E. Brinkley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Georgia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hal E. Brinkley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Georgia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeanette Winter |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780152045975 |
Presents, in brief text and illustrations, the life of the painter who drew much of her inspiration from nature.
Author | : Marcus T. Johnson |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2015-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 149697445X |
Have you ever wondered how Georgia got it name? Have you ever asked yourself, "how can I teach my child about Georgia's History and facts?" Well here is the story that will do just that. Your child will enjoy listening to or reading this amazing story about a little nameless state that was in search of a name.
Author | : Cathy J. Kaemmerlen |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439667535 |
Ever wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone's throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can't be...that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can't help pondering the seemingly endless supply of head-scratching place names that dot this state. Luckily, the intrepid Cathy Kaemmerlen stands ready to unravel the enigmas--Enigma is, in fact, a Georgia town--behind the state's most astonishing appellations. Cow Hell, Gum Pond, Boxankle and Lord a Mercy Cove? One town owes its name to a random sign that fell off a railcar, while another memorializes a broken bone suffered by a cockfight spectator. And just how many place names were inspired by insolent mules? Come on in to find out.
Author | : Kenneth K. Krakow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. Riley Snorton |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452955859 |
Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the “father of American gynecology,” to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of “cross dressing” and canonical black literary works that express black men’s access to the “female within,” Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don’t Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.
Author | : Georgia Blain |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1743430906 |
In her final year at school, Caitlin meets Fraser, a Satya Deva devotee, on the bus. Her life is instantly changed, and she gives up everything to be with him and to follow his faith. Her past means nothing to her - all that matters is that she is with her new family, a family who can give her what she needs as she pursues a path that involves denying the person she once was and the people she once loved. Her parents, Liam and Sharn, have reached an impasse. Sharn spends her days resenting Liam and his inaction; Liam spends his watching video footage of his family in happier times. With Caitlin's sudden disappearance, the relationship is stretched even further, almost to breaking point. When Sharn finally tracks Caitlin down, what she discovers will force her to take matters into her own hands. If her daughter won't come home, she'll make her.
Author | : Tom Wolfe |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429960698 |
The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist. A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Author | : Cathy J. Kaemmerlen |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467143553 |
Ever wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone's throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can't be...that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can't help pondering the seemingly endless supply of head-scratching place names that dot this state. Luckily, the intrepid Cathy Kaemmerlen stands ready to unravel the enigmas--Enigma is, in fact, a Georgia town--behind the state's most astonishing appellations. Cow Hell, Gum Pond, Boxankle and Lord a Mercy Cove? One town owes its name to a random sign that fell off a railcar, while another memorializes a broken bone suffered by a cockfight spectator. And just how many place names were inspired by insolent mules? Come on in to find out.
Author | : John H. Goff |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820331295 |
John Goff wrote for people of all reasonings--historians, linguists, anthropologists, geographers, cartographers, folklorists, and those ubiquitous intelligent readers. Comprising one of the most informative and appealing contributions to the study of toponymy, his short studies have never before been widely available. Placenames of Georgia brings together the sketches that appeared in the Georgia Mineral Newsletter and other longer articles so that all interested in Georgia and the Southeast can share Professor Goff's intimate knowledge of the history and geography of his state and region, his linguistic rigor, and his appreciation of the folklore surrounding many of Georgia's names.