The "Dutch" Participation in Georgia's Colonial Wars
Author | : George Fenwick Jones |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : George Fenwick Jones |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : George Fenwick Jones |
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Total Pages | : 783 |
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Author | : George Fenwick Jones |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820313931 |
This is the first comprehensive history of the German-speaking settlers who emigrated to the Georgia colony from Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, Austria, and adjacent regions. Known collectively as the Georgia Dutch, they were the colony's most enterprising early settlers, and they played a vital role in gaining Britain's toehold in a territory also coveted by Spain and France. The main body of the book is a chronological account of the Georgia Dutch from their earliest arrival in 1733 to their dispersal and absorption into what was, by 1783, an Anglo-American populace. Underscoring the harsh daily life of the common settler, George Fenwick Jones also highlights noteworthy individuals and events. He traces recurrent themes, including tensions between the realities of the settlers' lives and the aspirations and motivations of the colony's trustees and supporters; the web of relations between German- and English-speaking whites, African Americans, and Native Americans; and early signs of the genesis of a distinctly new and American sensibility. Three summary chapters conclude The Georgia Dutch. Merging new material with information from previous chapters, Jones offers the most complete depiction to date of Georgia Dutch culture and society. Included are discussions of religion; health and medicine; education; welfare and charity; industry, agriculture, trade, and commerce; Native-American affairs; slavery; domestic life and customs; the arts; and military and legal concerns. Based on twenty-five years of research with primary documents in Europe and the United States, The Georgia Dutch is a welcome reappraisal of an ethnic group whose role in colonial history has, over time, been unfairly minimized.
Author | : Society of Colonial Wars in the state of Georgia |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
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Genre | : Battle of bloody marsh |
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Author | : General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). Georgia |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Bloody Marsh, Battle of, 1742 |
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Author | : General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). Georgia |
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Author | : Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Georgia |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1930 |
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Author | : Alexander Preston Russell |
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Georgia |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Walter J. Fraser |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820324364 |
This flowing, instantly engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to the uncertainties faced by its Civil War survivors in 1865. Alongside the many women and men of European, African, and Native American heritage who helped shaped Savannah's first century and a half, Walter J. Fraser Jr. also shows how war, disease, market forces, fire, and other circumstances left their marks on the city and its people. Among other major developments in Savannah's history, Fraser recalls the hardships of its first residents; the depredations of the Revolutionary War; the relocation of Georgia's capital away from the city; the growth of commerce through railroads and steamships; the establishment of public institutions such as the Female Asylum for orphaned and abandoned girls, and the Poor House and Hospital; and the emergence of public education, a professional police force, and other elements of an urban infrastructure. More than any previous history of the city, Savannah in the Old South points out how whites and blacks, bondpeople and free men and women often interacted in ways that smoothed away the rough edges of racism. From Savannah's physical layout to its cosmopolitan culture, from its social services network to its racially diverse poor neighborhoods, the city offered opportunities for daily contact between blacks and whites that did not exist in the surrounding rural areas. By the eve of the Civil War, Savannah had become Georgia's major commercial and cultural center and the region's sixth largest city. The story of its remarkable growth is told herewith an eye for telling facts and human drama.