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Description for Alabama
Paperback. Alabama: The Making of an American State is a thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama, from its geological origins to the early twenty-first century, offering a vital new narrative of the history, culture, and identity of the state. Num Pages: 264 pages, 167 color figures / 122 B&W figures / 19 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; HBJK; HBTB; JPA; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1021.
Alabama: The Making of an American State is itself a watershed event in the long and storied history of the state of Alabama. Here, presented for the first time ever in a single, magnificently illustrated volume, Edwin C. Bridges conveys the magisterial sweep of Alabama’s rich, difficult, and remarkable history with verve, eloquence, and an unblinking eye.
From Alabama’s earliest fossil records to its settlement by Native Americans and later by European settlers and African slaves, from its territorial birth pangs and statehood through the upheavals of the Civil War and the civil rights movement, Bridges makes ... Read more
Alabama: The Making of an American State is itself a watershed event in the long and storied history of the state of Alabama. Here, presented for the first time ever in a single, magnificently illustrated volume, Edwin C. Bridges conveys the magisterial sweep of Alabama’s rich, difficult, and remarkable history with verve, eloquence, and an unblinking eye.
From Alabama’s earliest fossil records to its settlement by Native Americans and later by European settlers and African slaves, from its territorial birth pangs and statehood through the upheavals of the Civil War and the civil rights movement, Bridges makes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817358761
SKU
V9780817358761
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Ref
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About Edwin C. Bridges
Edwin C. Bridges served as the director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History for thirty years and is the coauthor of Georgia’s Signers and the Declaration of Independence.
Reviews for Alabama
“We have long needed Alabama, and who better to write it than Edwin Bridges, director emeritus of the Alabama Department of Archives and History? His well-balanced and magnificently illustrated account of the state’s history is just a delightful—if sometimes sobering—read.” —G. Ward Hubbs, author of Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman and Guarding ... Read more