Books by "Robert Allen Baker"
9 books found
Reprint of the 1882 ed. published by O. L. Baskin, Chicago, with a newly prepared index.
Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war experience tells of ordinary soldiers and their wives, mothers and children, slaves, farmers, merchants, Unionists and deserters--through an examination of tax records. The recently discovered 1863 Gaston County, North Carolina, tax list provides a detailed economic and social picture of a war-weary community, recording what taxpayers owned, cataloging slaves by name, age and monetary value, and assessing luxury items. Contemporary diaries, letters and other previously unpublished documents complete the picture, describing cotton mill operations, the lives of slaves, political disagreements, rationales for soldiers' enlistments and desertions, and economic struggles on the home front.
Memoir side of the house: truth, honest and experience. Satire side of the house: not true, not honest and no experience. just relevant on the imagination of the reader. _____________________________ Era in time, where you are judged by the color of your skin, and not the content of character. This is the basic concept derived from the speech of Dr. King. A different time as depicted by Ms. Deen. Cover Photo: My Grandson (Beau) Ferinando T. Smith Jr.
In this lively study, Robert E. Shalhope supplies a fascinating microcosmic view of the rise and triumph of liberal individualism in America and explores its impact on political culture. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Originally published in 1996. Americans who lived between the Revolution and Civil War felt the brunt of resounding and sometimes frightening changes, which together eventually influenced the political culture of early America. In this lively study, Robert E. Shalhope examines one of the changes most difficult to gauge and most controversial among students of the period—the rise and triumph of liberal individualism in America—and explores its impact on political culture. Taking Bennington, Vermont, and its environs as a case study, Shalhope untangles the clash among three competing elements in the community—the egalitarian communalism of the Strict Congregationalists; the democratic individualism of the revolutionary Green Mountain Boys; and the hierarchical authority of the community's Federalist gentlemen of property and standing. None of these players anticipated (and indeed did not wish for) the result—the emergence of democratic liberalism. Shalhope writes of class tension, economic competition, and religious differences—and ultimately of cultural conflict and political partisanship—and yet throughout uses individual life experiences to give the narrative piquancy and to emphasize the significance of seemingly small, personal decisions. Shalhope thus demonstrates how the private lives of ordinary people played a role in the settlement of public issues. As an account of a single town and how its residents responded to change, Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys supplies a fascinating microcosmic view of the larger story of how liberal America came to be.
The Birds of British Columbia
by Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, British Columbia. Wildlife Branch, Canadian Wildlife Service, Ian McTaggart-Cowan
1997 · UBC Press, [1997]-2001.
This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.
The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery