Author: Lily Logan Morrill
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467870323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
General Thomas M. Logan was one of the youngest Confederate commanders of the Civil War. After the war, he was instrumental in mobilizing the modernization of the rail system in Virginia and called for national reconciliation and for the equal rights and education of women and former slaves.
A Builder of the New South
Author: Lily Logan Morrill
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467870323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
General Thomas M. Logan was one of the youngest Confederate commanders of the Civil War. After the war, he was instrumental in mobilizing the modernization of the rail system in Virginia and called for national reconciliation and for the equal rights and education of women and former slaves.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467870323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
General Thomas M. Logan was one of the youngest Confederate commanders of the Civil War. After the war, he was instrumental in mobilizing the modernization of the rail system in Virginia and called for national reconciliation and for the equal rights and education of women and former slaves.
Ebony
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Builders of a New South
Author: Aaron D. Anderson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617036676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An account of the business lives of freedmen, whites, plantation and store owners in a thriving, Deep South commercial center
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617036676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An account of the business lives of freedmen, whites, plantation and store owners in a thriving, Deep South commercial center
The Shell Builders
Author: Colin Brooker
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643360728
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberian, Caribbean, Spanish American, and even African roots—brought to the United States by adventurers, merchants, military engineers, planters, and the enslaved. Tabby has been preserved most abundantly in the Beaufort area and its outlying islands, (and along the Sea Islands all the way to Florida as well) with Fort Frederick in 1734 having the earliest example of a diverse group of structures, which included town houses, seawalls, planters' homes, barns, agricultural buildings, and slave quarters. Tabby's insulating properties are excellent protection from long, hot, humid, and sometimes deadly summers; and on the islands, particularly, wealthy plantation owners built grand houses for themselves and improved dwellings for enslaved workers that after two hundred-plus years still stand today. An extraordinarily hardy material, tabby has a history akin to some of the world's oldest building techniques and is referred to as "rammed earth," as well as " tapia" in Spanish, "pisé de terre" in French, and "hangtu" in Chinese. The form that tabby construction took along the Sea Islands, however, was born of necessity. Here stone and brick were rare and expensive, but the oyster shells that were used as the source for the tabby's lime base were plentiful. Today these bits of shell, often visible in the walls and forms constructed long ago, give tabby its unique and iconic appearance. Colin Brooker, architect and expert on historic restoration, has not only made an exhaustive foray into local tabby architecture and heritage; he also has made a multinational tour as well in search of tabby origins, evolution, and diffusion from the Bahamas to Morocco to Andalusia, which can be traced back as far as the tenth century. Brooker has spent more than thirty years investigating the origins of tabby, its chemistry, its engineering, and its limitations. The Shell Builders lays out a sweeping, in-depth, and fascinating investigative journey—at once archaeological, sociological, and historical—into the ways prior inhabitants used and shaped their environment in order to house and protect themselves, leaving behind an architectural legacy that is both mysterious and beautiful. Lawrence S. Rowland, a distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and past president of the South Carolina Historical Society, provides a foreword.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643360728
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberian, Caribbean, Spanish American, and even African roots—brought to the United States by adventurers, merchants, military engineers, planters, and the enslaved. Tabby has been preserved most abundantly in the Beaufort area and its outlying islands, (and along the Sea Islands all the way to Florida as well) with Fort Frederick in 1734 having the earliest example of a diverse group of structures, which included town houses, seawalls, planters' homes, barns, agricultural buildings, and slave quarters. Tabby's insulating properties are excellent protection from long, hot, humid, and sometimes deadly summers; and on the islands, particularly, wealthy plantation owners built grand houses for themselves and improved dwellings for enslaved workers that after two hundred-plus years still stand today. An extraordinarily hardy material, tabby has a history akin to some of the world's oldest building techniques and is referred to as "rammed earth," as well as " tapia" in Spanish, "pisé de terre" in French, and "hangtu" in Chinese. The form that tabby construction took along the Sea Islands, however, was born of necessity. Here stone and brick were rare and expensive, but the oyster shells that were used as the source for the tabby's lime base were plentiful. Today these bits of shell, often visible in the walls and forms constructed long ago, give tabby its unique and iconic appearance. Colin Brooker, architect and expert on historic restoration, has not only made an exhaustive foray into local tabby architecture and heritage; he also has made a multinational tour as well in search of tabby origins, evolution, and diffusion from the Bahamas to Morocco to Andalusia, which can be traced back as far as the tenth century. Brooker has spent more than thirty years investigating the origins of tabby, its chemistry, its engineering, and its limitations. The Shell Builders lays out a sweeping, in-depth, and fascinating investigative journey—at once archaeological, sociological, and historical—into the ways prior inhabitants used and shaped their environment in order to house and protect themselves, leaving behind an architectural legacy that is both mysterious and beautiful. Lawrence S. Rowland, a distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and past president of the South Carolina Historical Society, provides a foreword.
The Builder
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Statistical Register
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Author: Gloria S. Merker
Publisher: ASCSA
ISBN: 0876611838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Publisher: ASCSA
ISBN: 0876611838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
APAIS 1994: Australian public affairs information service
Author:
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Building News
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Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Acts and Ordinances of the Governor & Council of New South Wales, and Acts of Parliament Enacted For, and Applied To, the Colony, with Notes & Index
Author: New South Wales
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description