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Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era
Published in Paperback by The University of North Carolina Press (1996-03-04)
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A great read! Excellent research!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 1996-11-18
Review Date: 1996-11-18
A Great Read! Excellent research!
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 1996-11-18
Review Date: 1996-11-18
I highly recommend Madness for both the layperson and the scholar. Dr. McCandless has put together a history of insanity in South Carolina that reads more like a fascinating story than a "history book." His research has uncovered a wealth of incredible tales: we not only read about deplorable conditions, and sorry patients, but we feel the frustration of the doctors trying to "treat" the insane with little money and almost no guidance. Place the big-city homeless of today back in time to the South Carolina of the years before the Civil War. Picture the bag lady roaming the woods. Picture the doctor trying to cure her with bleeding and chains. Dr. McCandless paints a picture of horror but with a brush of compassion. He lets his reader feel for both the doctor as well as the patient. He opens doors the reader never even knew existed. A wonderful piece of research.
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More Than Food, Clothing and Shelter: Stories of Lizzie Grey and Minnie Chandler
Published in Paperback by Moon Lodge Press (1998-10)
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Admitting my bias
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Review Date: 2007-06-26
Review Date: 2007-06-26
Minnie Chandler was my grandmother, so I will admit my bias in this review. She raised my mother from the time my mother was around age 12, as recounted in the book. She was the only grandmother I ever knew on that side of the family, and as she and Lizzie Grey were unmarried sisters who lived together, it was a package deal for me--two grandmothers for the price of one! The one thing I can say about this book--as wonderful as it is--is that it cannot ever do the lives of these two marvelous women justice. They were amazing, and two of the most positive women you could ever meet.
If you want to be inspired, read this book.
If you want to be inspired, read this book.
A wonderful account of the lives of two southern sisters.
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Review Date: 1999-10-26
Review Date: 1999-10-26
The remarkable stories of two southern sisters born at the turn of the centry, is told by the surviving sister,Lizzie Grey, now 97, blind and nearly deaf. The book provides a unique picture of life that was very different from ordinary women in the early 1900s through the present. Lizzie Grey's wit and positive attitude shines through this uplifting book. Co-author, Wynolia Apple did a wonderful job of telling the Chandler sister's story. It is an inspiring, uplifting book.
More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women (More than Petticoats Series)
Published in Paperback by TwoDot (2000-01-01)
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Absorbing and informative biographical sketches.
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Review Date: 2000-06-06
Review Date: 2000-06-06
In More Than Petticoats, the reader is introduced to fourteen extraordinary and memorable women from North Carolina. Each of this remarkable women were alive at important historical junctions of the state's history ranging from the Revolutionary War, to the Civil War, to the beginning of the 20th Century. These were women who saw reformation all around them and realized that they too could contribute and promote change. There was Emeline Jamison Pigott, a Confederate spy; Mary Martin Sloop, a physician, community leader, and child welfare advocate in the hills of the Blue Ride; Maggie Axe Wachacha, a healer, teacher, and Cherokee leader; Cornelia Phillips Spencer, who helped liberate the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and eleven others who each directly addressed the challenges of their respective times and places. Their enduring contributions are here chronicled in absorbing and informative biographical sketches, providing a highly recommended addition to women's studies and American history reading lists.
Strong women, strong writing
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2008-06-08
Review Date: 2008-06-08
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women is a very satisfying book. As the title suggests, it is a collection of profiles of women who contributed to the history of the State of North Carolina through impressive acts of courage and/or years of determined effort.
The book opens with the story of Mary Hooks Slocumb, born in 1760, a heroine of the American Revolution, and concludes with the biography of Maggie Axe Wachacha, a Cherokee healer, treaty clerk and midwife who delivered more than 3000 babies before she died in 1993. Between, we meet a dozen other fascinating women who played significant roles in the advancement of North Carolina's social conditions, politics, education and health.
Scotti Kent is a strong writer - her spare, evocative prose draws readers in immediately and holds our interest and attention throughout each chapter. That these women's stories were of consistent interest to a reader who has never (yet) set foot in North Carolina is a testimony to not only the admirable qualities of the subjects' lives but also to the strength and clarity of the writing.
The book opens with the story of Mary Hooks Slocumb, born in 1760, a heroine of the American Revolution, and concludes with the biography of Maggie Axe Wachacha, a Cherokee healer, treaty clerk and midwife who delivered more than 3000 babies before she died in 1993. Between, we meet a dozen other fascinating women who played significant roles in the advancement of North Carolina's social conditions, politics, education and health.
Scotti Kent is a strong writer - her spare, evocative prose draws readers in immediately and holds our interest and attention throughout each chapter. That these women's stories were of consistent interest to a reader who has never (yet) set foot in North Carolina is a testimony to not only the admirable qualities of the subjects' lives but also to the strength and clarity of the writing.
Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History
Published in Hardcover by The University of North Carolina Press (2006-11-27)
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Impossible to Ignore!
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Review Date: 2007-01-12
Review Date: 2007-01-12
Detailed and vastly documented study of gender differences throughout American history. Impossible to ignore.
The Mysteries of Sex
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-09-19
Review Date: 2007-09-19
The "Mysteries of Sex" is a fascinating and enlightening book, not a sex manual as you might suppose, but an analysis of the relationships between men and women through four centuries of American history, from the American Indians to the present day. Mary Ryan explores the way in which gender differences, and the political response to them, has shaped, and is shaping, our history. I was impressed, not only by the scholarship, but especially by the prose style: a heavy subject, but an easy read!Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History
The Natural Traveler: Along North Carolina's Coast (Natural Traveler)
Published in Paperback by John F. Blair Publisher (2003-05)
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Who Knew?
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Review Date: 2006-11-07
Review Date: 2006-11-07
Who knew that there were so many interesting and accessible areas to explore along the NC coast? We look forward to taking some of the trips described in this unusual book.
Great Guide
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2003-07-13
Review Date: 2003-07-13
I bought this guide to the North Carolina coast at a book signing by the author while I was at the Outer Banks. It was very useful with an interesting and different slant from the typical guidebook. It makes me want to come back and spend more time exploring other parts of the area in more depth. I highly recommend it for anyone who loves the natural world and North Carolina.
A New World: England's First View of America
Published in Hardcover by The University of North Carolina Press (2007-03-26)
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Interesting first look at America
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2007-05-14
Review Date: 2007-05-14
Very well done, very informative, good attention to detail.
Wonderful watercolors of early America
Helpful Votes: 7 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2008-07-05
Review Date: 2008-07-05
John White (c. 1540 - c. 1606), was an English artists who sailed with Richard Grenville in 1585 to the modern day coast of North Carolina. He made a number of watercolors of the landscape and the native peoples they encountered. These are the first and most informative illustrations of Native American society of the Eastern seaboard. They were later engraved by Theodore de Bry; all the surviving original paintings are now in the print room of the British Museum.
A New World: England's First View of America is beautifully illustrated and reproduces in full the British Museum collection of drawings and watercolors. White's duties included making visual records of everything he encountered, including plants, animals, birds, and human inhabitants, especially their dress, weapons, tools, and ceremonies. The collection also includes White's watercolors of Florida and Brazilian Indians.
Each work is reproduced in color and supplemented by engravings by Theodor de Bry and others. In 1590 Theodorus de Bry and his sons had published a new, illustrated edition of Thomas Harriot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (Rosenwald Collection Reprint Series) about the first English settlements in North America (in modern-day North Carolina). His illustrations were based on White's watercolor paintings. One interesting aspect of this fine book is seeing how significantly de Bry changed White's works; the engravings are very detailed, but lack the life of the paintings.
Kim Sloan places John White in his historical, cultural, and artistic contexts. Joyce Chaplin explores how White's contemporaries viewed his work and Christian Feest assesses its accuracy as historical documentation. Ute Kuhlemann examines the role of de Bry.
I found this book a wonderful introduction to America as the English of the time must have seen it.
Robert C. Ross 2008
A New World: England's First View of America is beautifully illustrated and reproduces in full the British Museum collection of drawings and watercolors. White's duties included making visual records of everything he encountered, including plants, animals, birds, and human inhabitants, especially their dress, weapons, tools, and ceremonies. The collection also includes White's watercolors of Florida and Brazilian Indians.
Each work is reproduced in color and supplemented by engravings by Theodor de Bry and others. In 1590 Theodorus de Bry and his sons had published a new, illustrated edition of Thomas Harriot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (Rosenwald Collection Reprint Series) about the first English settlements in North America (in modern-day North Carolina). His illustrations were based on White's watercolor paintings. One interesting aspect of this fine book is seeing how significantly de Bry changed White's works; the engravings are very detailed, but lack the life of the paintings.
Kim Sloan places John White in his historical, cultural, and artistic contexts. Joyce Chaplin explores how White's contemporaries viewed his work and Christian Feest assesses its accuracy as historical documentation. Ute Kuhlemann examines the role of de Bry.
I found this book a wonderful introduction to America as the English of the time must have seen it.
Robert C. Ross 2008
No Ordinary Lives: A History of Richmond County, North Carolina, 1750-1900
Published in Hardcover by Walsworth Pub Co (1998-06)
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No Ordinary history!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2005-03-30
Review Date: 2005-03-30
Hutchinson has complimented his scholarly background in the subject by writing a great history. So often the dry, methodical annotations of great research or endless family trees crowd or get in the way of a good story - the stuff that makes a great history come alive. Hutchinson has given us a great history - readable, exciting, and well-documented for a formative county occupied by extraordinary people.
FOR ANYONE WITH ROOTS AND TIES TO RICHMOND COUNTY
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2002-03-13
Review Date: 2002-03-13
I DISCOVERED A TON OF INFO ABOUT MY RICHMOND COUNTY ANCESTORS (ESPECIALLY CIVIL WAR INFO). WITHOUT IT MY GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH WOULD BE VERY LIMITED
The North African Stones Speak
Published in Hardcover by Univ of North Carolina Pr (1980-10)
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If you travel to Tunisia...
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Review Date: 2008-08-04
Review Date: 2008-08-04
If you travel to Tunisia, then this is the book for you. Tunisia has the best preserved Roman ruins in Africa, and a week's tour (and there are good tours to be had) will be enhanced by this text. Take it with you and preview the next day's travels.
Excellent Overview of Roman North Africa
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2003-07-05
Review Date: 2003-07-05
I found Paul MacKendrick's book a fantastic comprehensive overview of Roman Africa and its monuments. He covers all the major and minor sites and descibes everything in an interesting manner. I love his style of writing engrossing and maintains the readers interests. I think his book would be interesting to professionals and laymen alike. The maps and photos were great and went well with the text. I loved this book and didn't want it to end.
The North Carolina Atlas: Portrait for a New Century
Published in Hardcover by The University of North Carolina Press (2000-03-27)
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More Than Just Maps
Helpful Votes: 20 out of 22 total.
Review Date: 2000-03-29
Review Date: 2000-03-29
As Governor Jim Hunt says in the forward, "North Carolina is at a crossroads in its history." This "atlas" provides not only a wealth of information, but an intelligent perspective on the future of the state as it enters the 21st century.
Subjects matter includes the natural environment, history, population, urbanization, economy, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, trade, politics, air quality, water resources, crime, health, education, arts, and recreation. I found these topics to be presented in an effective manner and certainly more enlightening than the statistical record one might imagine.
I also discovered, before I placed my order, that I was able to preview some of the book's illustrations at the UNC Charlotte Cartography Lab web site.
I would recommend this text not only to students, researchers and teachers, but anyone interested in a comprehensive and knowledgeable summary of the diverse state of North Carolina.
A definitive analysis of changes in North Carolina
Helpful Votes: 7 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2000-12-10
Review Date: 2000-12-10
This is the most comprehensive and informative state atlas I have ever reviewed. Excellent maps, great charts and clearly written text makes "The North Carolina Atlas" a book that needs to be on the shelf of every public library and in the hands of all North Carolina devotes. Over the last century North Carolina has transformed itself from a struggling southern state to one of the fastest growing economies in the U.S. "The North Carolina Atlas" provides a definitive analysis of the changes that have created this wonderful state.
History, population, urbanization, and economy are transforming forces that molded North Carolina into what it is today. Each of these sections are clearly laid out so that the reader can make a critical analysis of the change and form an assessment of the coming changes that the future may bring.
Especially interesting are the sections that deal with quality of life in North Carolina. Crime, education, health care, water and air quality, cultural arts and outdoor recreation are profiled and supported by scores of maps, charts and diagrams. This is a book I would especially want in my possession if I was considering moving my family and business to this State. Highly Recommended.
North Carolina Mountains Map
Published in Paperback by Appalachian Mountain Club (1992-11)
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Introduce Your Child to Nature at the Seashore
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2006-06-10
Review Date: 2006-06-10
You can never have too many indentification guides. Here's what the Appalachian Mountain Club says of this one:
"Help your children explore the seashores of the Atlantic Coast. Packed with scores of fascinating facts and new illustrations, this completely revised and updated edition tells children all about nature along the Atlantic coast. This hands-on guide includes: sections on common shells, shore birds, sea creatures, and a new section on insects; a greatly expanded territory, now reaching from Maine all the way to Florida, with dozens of species added; locator maps showing where each species may be found; tips on safety and protecting the shoreline; and a sturdy, waterproof cover for long-lasting use."
Here are the contents:
1. Exploring the Seashore
2. Sea Creatures
3. Shells to Collect
4. Seashore Plants
5. Insects
6. Shorebirds
7. Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea
Appendix A: Special Places along the Atlantic Coast
Appendix B: Sea-Searching on the Internet
"Help your children explore the seashores of the Atlantic Coast. Packed with scores of fascinating facts and new illustrations, this completely revised and updated edition tells children all about nature along the Atlantic coast. This hands-on guide includes: sections on common shells, shore birds, sea creatures, and a new section on insects; a greatly expanded territory, now reaching from Maine all the way to Florida, with dozens of species added; locator maps showing where each species may be found; tips on safety and protecting the shoreline; and a sturdy, waterproof cover for long-lasting use."
Here are the contents:
1. Exploring the Seashore
2. Sea Creatures
3. Shells to Collect
4. Seashore Plants
5. Insects
6. Shorebirds
7. Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea
Appendix A: Special Places along the Atlantic Coast
Appendix B: Sea-Searching on the Internet
what a treasure!!! informative with excellent illustrations!
Helpful Votes: 8 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 1999-09-03
Review Date: 1999-09-03
I have two kids with active imaginations who love to explore and learn. This book encourages getting outside with hands-on examples of what you could find in your area, and in an age of computer games it's nice to find a fun and imformative book with such wonderfull illustrations. This is an inexpensive gift for kids with alot of energy like mine !
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I highly recommend Madness for both the layperson and the scholar. Dr. McCandless has put together a history of insanity in South Carolina that reads more like a fascinating story than a "history book." His research has uncovered a wealth of incredible tales: we not only read about deplorable conditions, and sorry patients, but we feel the frustration of the doctors trying to "treat" the insane with little money and almost no guidance. Place the big-city homeless of today back in time to the South Carolina of the years before the Civil War. Picture the bag lady roaming the woods. Picture the doctor trying to cure her with bleeding and chains. Dr. McCandless paints a picture of horror but with a brush of compassion. He lets his reader feel for both the doctor as well as the patient. He opens doors the reader never even knew existed. A wonderful read.
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