South Carolina Books

This guidebook introduces the potential tourist to various utopian communities throughout the United States. Each community is given a chapter, which has an introduction that includes the community's general location, address, telephone number, hours when open, admission, restaurants, shops and facilities. (Everything a tourist could need!) Next follows an overview of the community, its history, and finally a written tour explaining what a visitor will see.

The communities included are: Ephrata Cloister (Ephrata, Pennsylvania), Old Salem (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), Mount Lebanon Shaker Village (New Lebanon, New York), Hancock Shaker Village (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), Canterbury Shaker Village (Canterbury, New Hampshire), The Shaker Museum (Poland Spring, Maine), Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (Harrodsburg, Kentucky), Shakertown at South Union (South Union, Kentucky), Shaker Museum and Library (Old Chatham, New York), Old Economy Village (Ambridge, Pennsylvania), Zoar Village State Memorial (Zoar, Ohio), Historic New Harmony (New Harmony, Indiana), Oneida Community (Oneida, New York), Fruitlands (Harvard, Massachusetts), Historic Bethel German Colony (Aurora, Oregon), Bishop Hill (Bishop Hill, Illinois), Amana Colonies (Amana, Iowa), Historic Rugby (Rugby, Tennessee), and Koreshan State Historic Site (Estero, Florida).

This book is a wonderful resource! Not only does this book tell you how you can visit various historic utopian communities, but it also gives you the information you need to understand what the community was about. Complete with pictures, I highly recommend this book.

This is additional information taken from the 2nd printing of the book, 1975.

About the Author:
Max Byrd is an assistant professor in the Department of English aT Yale University, havnig received his Ph.D. from harvard in 1970. Awarded the Know Fellowship by Harvard and the Morse Fellowship by Yale, he ahs specialized in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English and American literature. A version of the introduction to Visits to Bedlam won the Winthrop Sargeant Price at harvard in 1970.

Subject Terms: 1. English literature-18th century-History and criticism. 2. Mental illness in literature.

Contents:
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One / Reason in Madness
Chapter Two / Dunciad and Augustan Madness
Chapter Three / Swift
Chapter Four / Johnson
Chapter Five / Madness at Mid-Century: Melancholy and the Sublime
Chapter Six / Cowper and Blake
Notes
Index

Illustrations

Frontispiece. Sixteenth-century engraving by Matthaus Greuter of Doctor Wurmbrandt curing insanity

Plate 1. William Hogarth's Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism: A Medley (1762)
Plate 2. William Hogarth's last engraving in the series Rakes' Progress (1735)
Plate 3. Richard Newton's A Visit to Bedlam (1794)
Plate 4. The Mad Artist in Chains, an eighteenth-century etching by an anonymous artist
Plate 5. Wash drawing by Thomas Rowlandson of a doctor and a lunatic
Plate 6. St. Luke's Hospital (1809), a colored aquatint and etching by Thomas Rowlandson and August Pugin
Plate 7. Madness, an eighteenth-century mezzotint by and anonymous artist
Plate 8. Crazey Kate (1815), a colored aquatint by G. M. Brighty after Geoge Shepheard

All illustrations are from the Fry Print Collection, Yale Medical Library

200 pages

What a great book. Old photos and family stories of the early beginnings of a wonderful town. Perfect condition, very reasonable price.

The best way to learn history is from the mouths of those who lived it, and enjoying the experiences of the King Ranch Kinenos and the vaqueros of the Kenedy Ranch through their unadorned, first-person accounts puts the reader right back at the last fringes of the Old West period. Indian attacks, raids by Pancho Villa and forays by the Union and the Confederacy forces disrupt but do not change the tradition rich life of the Hispanic cowboy. Loyal until death, theirs was a life of service, duty, and honor. This is a can't-miss read for fans of Texana, Hispanic history, and ranching life.

The Vonnegut Effect by Jerome Klinkowitz (Professor of English and University distinguished Scholar, University of Nor-thern Iowa) is an impressively presented literary study of American author Kurt Vonnegut's amazing ability to retain popular appeal while boldly working in new themes and cutting edge literary forms. A thoroughly researched study of Vonnegut's fiction over the past half-century, The Vonnegut Effect is a thoughtful, thought-provoking discussion which is enthusiastically recommended reading -- especially those craving intelligent discourse about Kurt Vonnegut's remarkable and enduringly popular works of speculative fiction.

Excellent book. Great Illustrations of this pretty old town. Not only are the illustrations excellent the Hisorical Content is outstanding and straight forward. A must have for all lovers of Old Salem.

This is a most facenating true story. it opened my eyes and heart to the black - white history of human relations in this country. It is both heart warming and heart breaking. It is beautifuly written to allow us into the heart center of the author. I am a better person for having read this story and having walked with the author on the grass. God bless her for sharing her story. It is appropriate for our times. It should be considered manatory reading at the college level.

Wandering to Glory was what I have been seeking... information on Evans "Tramp" Brigade. The stories written by the actual troops were very useful and painted a very good picture of what this General and his companies did during the Civil War as well as what went on between the General and his troops as well as his commanding officers.

Very little information on this General and this brigade can be found on the web. This book was very well researched and written.

A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign Against the Iroquois, July-September 1779. by Joseph R. Fischer. 1997. 265 pages.

I have long wanted to read this book because I thought that it was a book which was very damming of the Sullivan Campaign. I thought it would provide by its negativity a balance against other sources and a framework for further study of this very important campaign. This campaign was very important and is a historical hot potato because of its contributions to the demise of the Iroquois and some would say all American Indians. Since moving out to Northeastern Pennsylvania I have taken a keen interest in the Sullivan Campaign. Besides an interest in the campaign with in the context of its happening I have also become interested in how it is remembered and evaluated by the various sides, historians, and military professionals.

The first section of this book went into some of the evaluations and memory material. It touched on it with out delving to deeply into it. The main thesis of the book was not actually an evaluation of the campaign in the manner that I originally thought it would be. Rather the book uses the Sullivan Campaign as a tool to evaluate the capability of the Continental Army during the middle period of the war to determine the effectiveness of the reforms started in 1775.

The author selects Strategy and Operations, Tactics, Logistics, Leadership, and Civil-Military Relations as his categories for detailed analysis. The author does also provide a background on the situation which is fairly well balanced and a summing up starting with the speech given by GEN W. T. Sherman in 1879 at the Centennial Celebration of the campaign. A celebration held at Tioga Point/Athens, PA which drew a crowd of 50,000 people.

The book provides some very good insights on the Continental Army at mid-war. The author's long personal military experience pays dividends in his ability to convey sometimes complex military actions in simple to understand terms which would not scare off a casual reader. The reader is apt to gain a greater appreciation for George Washington's planning ability and his willingness to take risks. I gained a much greater appreciation for MG John Sullivan than I had previously. He has a somewhat troubled reputation and entered the war with little if any military training. He retired for health reasons following the campaign. This book presents the image of a man who was cautious and attentive. He had a reputation for good planning and this shows through in all the sections. I am also more interested in the influences of von Steuben then I had been previously. His ability to adapt to the American Character played a major role in the evolution of the Continental and the American Army even today.

The weakness of the Continental Army was a weakness of logistics and Civil-Military Relations. The logistics aspect is well covered by the author and in many ways was typical of most armies of this time though it was even more so because of governmental systemic problems. The sheer amount of material required to sustain the expedition deep into Iroquoia is staggering. That the soldiers stayed with the expedition, that they generally preformed quite well, well enough to surprise their opponents who expected militia or had a generally dim view of American fighting ability to begin with.

The expedition as this book makes clear accomplished its goals at the tactical level and the operational level. It did not accomplish its strategic goals but that these goals were understood by the actors to be beyond their own ability anyway.

The book is well written and researched. The book serves those interested in the campaign, those interested in the evolution of the Continental Army, and those who have an interest in how armies operate even today. Highly recommended.

Compiled and edited by Horace Randall Williams, Weren't No Good Times is an anthology of 46 of the 125 interviews of former Alabama slaves, conducted from 1936 to 1938, presented with the express purpose of thoroughly documenting and creating a record of life during slavery in the southern state of Alabama. A powerful primary source, presenting individual voices with a loud and clear message of what slavery itself was truly like, Weren't No Good Times has the absolute highest recommendation and is a must for school and community libraries and American History and Black History reference collections and reading lists.