The Creation of Modern Georgia (Brown Thrasher Book) - Hardcover

Bartley, Numan V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820311839 ISBN 13: 9780820311838

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Examines the persistence and ultimate collapse of Georgia's plantation-oriented colonial society and the emergence of a modern state with greater urbanization, industrialization, and diversification

About this title

About the Author:

Numan V. Bartley was E. Merton Coulter Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He published several books on the South.

Review:

The book's aim is to increase understanding of southern history as a whole by focusing on a single state. New chapters added since the 1983 first edition discuss urbanization and diversification.

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Informed by the latest scholarship, particularly the last decade's studies of the South in the thirty years following the Civil War, his work is an ambitious attempt to 'understand Southern history through a study of one state.' . . . Bartley's is a stimulating interpretive synthesis, but one that does not lose itself or its readers in the arcane language of paradigms and models. He punctuates his analysis with briskly written narrative history and with brief biographical sketches that make for a lively narrative flow. . . . A worthy and challenging book

(Journal of American History)

Bartley, an old hand at Georgia and southern history, has written what could well become a model for other states; his Creation of Modern Georgia is a scholarly, well-thought out, compactly written survey of the state. . . . Moreover, the author has succeeded in his task of fashioning 'an interpretive essay' that explores the evolution of various social groups and 'how their interrelationships have been expressed in politics'

(American Historical Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0820311839
• ISBN 13: 9780820311838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312