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North Carolina Weather and Climate
Author | : Peter J. Robinson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807856253 |
"What is North Carolina's "typical" weather? How does it vary from the coast to the mountains? How do we forecast it? With dozens of color maps and tables to make understanding the weather easier, Robinson covers big issues such as the role of weather and climate in daily life, severe weather threats and their causes, and the meteorological effects of seasons. He also explains more specific phenomena including the causes of heating and cooling, the effects of acid rain, and the role of groundwater in weather.".
The Geographic Revolution in Early America
Author | : Martin Brückner |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838977 |
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, The Geographic Revolution in Early America proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.
The North Carolina Gazetteer
Author | : William S. Powell |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807833995 |
North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History
Charlotte, NC
Author | : William Graves |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0820343080 |
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from Latin America and across the globe. Once derided for its sleepy, nine-to-five “uptown,” Charlotte's center city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern—globalizing, not yet global. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and local experts to examine Charlotte from multiple angles. Their topics include the banking industry, gentrification, boosterism, architecture, city planning, transit, public schools, NASCAR, and the African American and Latino communities. United in the conviction that the experience of this Sunbelt city—center of the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area—offers new insight into today's most pressing urban and suburban issues, the contributors to Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City ask what happens when the external forces of globalization combine with a city's internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.
A Geography of the Carolinas
Author | : David Gordon Bennett |
Publisher | : Parkway Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781933251431 |
Vibrant high-tech centers, shifting barrier islands, okra festivals, Yankee and Latino immigrants, Blue Ridge vistas, world-class universities and empty textile mills-this is the Carolinas. A region of striking natural beauty, rich history, and a rapidly changing economic base, the Carolinas are "Old South" and "New South," intimately local and inextricably global. In A Geography of the Carolinas, eleven noted geographers explore the region's historical, cultural and physical landscapes. Bringing the perspective of the science of geography and a wealth of experience and knowledge, the contributors reveal the patterns, processes, and connections at work in these two great states. Each chapter is an exploration of this diverse terrain of places and peoples, and a fascinating journey for those who wish to understand the past, present, and future of the Carolinas. Book jacket.
The Influence of Geography Upon Early North Carolina
Author | : Cordelia Camp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Human geography |
ISBN | : |
Physical features of the state, Coastal Plain, Piedmont Plateau, Settlement West of the Mountains.
The Georgia-South Carolina Boundary
Author | : Louise De Vorsey |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820332429 |
Since 1732, when Georgia was created out of South Carolina territory, the boundary between the two states has been disputed. This controversy reignited in the 1970s, culminating in a suit filed by Georgia in the U. S. Supreme Court to ascertain the location of the true boundary line between the states. De Vorsey's book grows out of this controversy and is a detailed examination of the historical geography of that boundary. After reviewing the events that led to the 1977 litigation, De Vorsey provides a detailed analysis of Georgia's original charter and the 1787 Treaty of Beaufort--two documents crucial to an understanding of the dispute. Using documentary and cartographic resources, he reconstructs the geographical conditions that existed at the time the documents were drafted and investigates how eighteenth-century Georgians and South Carolinians perceived these conditions. In the course of his inquiry he discusses the tremendous natural forces that have sculpted and re-sculpted the unstable shorelines and islands formed by geologically youthful delta sediments. He considers, too, the impact of man on the environment as he attempted to control nature and improve navigability on the Savannah River. The study concludes with a discussion of the particular areas of the Savannah River's shores and islands involved in the Supreme Court litigation.
Black Food Geographies
Author | : Ashanté M. Reese |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781469651507 |
Black food, black space, black agency -- Come to think of it, we were pretty self-sufficient: race, segregation, and food access in historical context -- There ain't nothing in Deanwood: navigating nothingness and the unsafeway -- What is our culture? I don't even know: the role of nostalgia and memory in evaluating contemporary food access -- He's had that store for years: the historical and symbolic value of community market -- We will not perish; we will flourish: community gardening, self-reliance, and refusal -- Black lives and black food futures.
A Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America
Author | : North Carolina Land Co |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-10-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780343142032 |
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