Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818-2018 / Michael Gagnon [and nine others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gagnon, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University of Georgia Press

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2022]

Summary:

In Gwinnett County's two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the entrance of women into the political arena, the evolution of cotton culture, the development of modern infrastructure, and the transformation from rural to suburban to a multicultural urbanizing place. Gwinnett, as its chamber of commerce likes to say, has it all. However, Gwinnett has yet to be the focus of a major historical exploration-until now. Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild's collection finally tells these stories in a systematic way-avoiding the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories that tend to ignore issues of race, class, or gender. While not claiming to be comprehensive, this book provides general readers and scholars alike with a glimpse at Gwinnett through the ages.

Contents:

Putting Gwinnett County in historical perspective / Bradley R. Rice

Cherokee and Creek agency : Gwinnett County before the Button / Richard A. Cook Jr.

An argument of state, federal, and national sovereignty : Cherokee nationalism and Worcester v. Georgia / Lisa L. Crutchfield

Slavery and cotton in antebellum Gwinnett / Michael Gagnon

Reluctant Confederates, steadfast Unionists, and rebellious slaves : secession and civil war in Gwinnett County, 1860-1865 / Keith S. Hébert

Reconstruction and race in Gwinnett and northeast Georgia / Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild

Gwinnett on the Air-Line : railroads and town building in Gwinnett County / R. Scott Huffard Jr.

Homely philosophy and the lost cause : Bill Arp and "Old Gwinnett" / David B. Parker

The farmers' movement and populism in Gwinnett County, 1873-1896 / Matthew Hild

Luck and pluck : the life of Buck Buchanan / David L. Mason

Sprawling fields of cotton : the boom and bust of cotton culture in Gwinnett / William D. Bryan

Alice Harrell Strickland (1859-1947) : civic motherhood in progressive-era Gwinnett County / Carey Olmstead Shellman

In search of the promised land : segregation, migration, and the African American experience in Gwinnett County, 1910-1980 / Erica Metcalfe

Saving Gwinnett County : preservation, modernization, and the three women who informed a Sunbelt suburb / Katheryn L. Nikolich

Of malls and MARTA : Gwinnett in the late twentieth century / Edward Hatfield

From burbs to pueblo : mass immigration and Gwinnett County's demographic revolution, 1990-2020 / Marko Maunula

The historian's promised land / Julia Brock.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820368207

0820368202

9780820362083

0820362085

OCLC:

1333082664