The Mobile River: with a new preface
"Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association. In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal experiences for a rich and rewarding read. Illust...
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Columbia, South Carolina
The University of South Carolina Press
2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association. In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal experiences for a rich and rewarding read. Illustrated with more than sixty color and black-and-white images, The Mobile River beautifully communicates a strong sense of place. Beginning at Nannahubba, where the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers meet, the Mobile River serves as the outlet for the sixth largest river basin in the United States and the largest one emptying into the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi. Sledge takes readers on a journey through history framed and sometimes directed by this expansive watershed. A tale spanning colonial forts, international treaties, and thundering naval battles, and populated by characters, including Indian warriors, European diplomats, cartographers, enslaved Africans, Civil War generals, hydraulic engineers, and 'Rosie the Riveter' women workers, The Mobile River presents a pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity. In a new preface, Sledge addresses the 2018 discovery of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in America"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 2410 |
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| ISBN: | 9781643365275 1643365274 |
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| spelling | Sledge, John S. 1957- Verfasser (DE-588)1143712765 aut The Mobile River with a new preface John S. Sledge Paperback edition Columbia, South Carolina The University of South Carolina Press 2024 pages cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 2410 Prologue: Downriver with Cap'n Joe -- Introduction: "A fine, large river" -- Coming Ahead. Indian Stream to Entrada Española ; Colonial Days and Ways ; American Dawn ; Calliope Song ; Rebel River ; Rebel Defeat ; "Mobile Harbor: What shall we do with it?" ; Modern Port, Beleaguered River -- Currents. "Everything down there's big enough to kill you" ; Pleasure and Peril ; Diverse Legacies -- Epilogue: Elegy for a Small Shipyard "Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association. In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal experiences for a rich and rewarding read. Illustrated with more than sixty color and black-and-white images, The Mobile River beautifully communicates a strong sense of place. Beginning at Nannahubba, where the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers meet, the Mobile River serves as the outlet for the sixth largest river basin in the United States and the largest one emptying into the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi. Sledge takes readers on a journey through history framed and sometimes directed by this expansive watershed. A tale spanning colonial forts, international treaties, and thundering naval battles, and populated by characters, including Indian warriors, European diplomats, cartographers, enslaved Africans, Civil War generals, hydraulic engineers, and 'Rosie the Riveter' women workers, The Mobile River presents a pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity. In a new preface, Sledge addresses the 2018 discovery of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in America"-- Mobile River (Ala.) / History Mobile River Watershed (Ala.) / History Mobile (Alab. : Fleuve) / Histoire HISTORY / Historical Geography HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy Online version Sledge, John S. Mobile river Updated edition Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2024 9781611174861 |
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