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The Georgia Historical Quarterly

Issue Summaries

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Volume XCVI, Spring 2012, No. 1

Articles

The Murder of William Wise: An Examination of Indentured Servitude, Anti-Irish Prejudice, and Crime in Early Georgia by Julie Anne Sweet
"Independent in Everything-Neutral in Nothing": Joseph Addison Turner, The Countryman, and the Cultivation of Confederate Nationalism by Michael T. Bernath

Notes and Documents

The Royal College of Physicians Survey of Savannah 1829 by A. M. Fraas

Annual Report

Annual Report for FY 2011 by W. Todd Groce

Book Reviews

JURICEK, Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733-1763, by Tyler Boulware
ELISOR, The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier, by Robbie Ethridge
ECELBARGER, The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta, by Stephen Davis
RABLE, God's Almost Chosen People: A Religious History of the American Civil War, by Paul M. Pruitt, Jr.
ALI, In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900, by Sylvie Coulibaly
NORRELL, Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington, by Chana Kai Lee
TUTEN, Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom, by Stephen G. Hoffius
HARRIS, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, by David A. Davis