The Land Between: A History of Hancock County, Georgia to 1940 Tapa dura - 1990

Orig. pub. 1990. Print on Demand Edition 2014. (x), 432 pp., maps, appendix, index With publication of The Land Between, Forrest Shivers gave Georgia a carefully researched, new history of Hancock County, founded in 1793 in the area between the Oconee and Ogeechee rivers. Beginning with the settlement of the area just after the American Revolution, he carries the story of the county through early Oconee Wars with the Creek Indians in the 1700s; through the birth and early reign of King Cotton; through Hancock County's Civil War participation and the demise of an economic and political system; through World War I, the boll weevil, and the Great Depression; and finally into social life, politics, and agriculture of the twentieth century. Hancock was an archetypal plantation county and home to some of the most successful and enlightened planters in the South prior to 1860. In fact buildings remaining from the period make Sparta, the county seat, a mecca for architecture buffs today. Names such as… Leer más

Reprint Co Publishing, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. ** Signed gift inscription by Forrest Shivers to previous owner on the front endpaper **; Very Good; Hardcover; 2014 Reprint Edition; Very light wear to the covers with "straight" edge-corners; One small faint blemish to the right textblock edge, otherwise clean textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Dark blue cloth covers with title in gold lettering along the spine; 1990, Reprint Co Publishing; 431 pages; "The Land Between: A History of Hancock County, Georgia to 1940," by Forrest Shivers.