Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818-2018

Hild, Matthew (EDT); Gagnon, Michael (EDT); Brock, Julia (CON); Bryan, William D. (CON); Jr., Richard A. Cook (CON)

ISBN 10: 0820362093 / ISBN 13: 9780820362090

Edité par University of Georgia Press, 2022

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818-2018
• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820362093
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820362090
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the entrance of women into the political arena, the evolution of cotton culture, the development of modern infrastructure, and the transformation from rural to suburban to a multicultural urbanizing place. Gwinnett, as its chamber of commerce likes to say, has it all. However, Gwinnett has yet to be the focus of a major historical exploration—until now. Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild’s collection finally tells these stories in a systematic way—avoiding the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories that tend to ignore issues of race, class, or gender. While not claiming to be comprehensive, this book provides general readers and scholars alike with a glimpse at Gwinnett through the ages.

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MICHAEL GAGNON is an associate professor at Georgia Gwinnett College and lives in Flowery Branch, Georgia. He is the author of Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870.

MATTHEW HILD teaches history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (Georgia).

WILLIAM D. BRYAN is an environmental historian in Atlanta, Georgia.

KEITH HEBERT is an associate professor and public history program officer at Auburn University. He is the author of The Long Civil War in the North Georgia Mountains: Confederate Nationalism, Sectionalism, and White Supremacy in Bartow County, Georgia and Cornerstone of the Confederacy: Alexander H. Stephens and the Speech That Defined the Lost Cause.

MARKO MAUNULA is an assistant professor of history at Clayton State University.