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Books by Pete Daniel






Lost Revolutions(1st Edition)
The South in the 1950s
by Pete Daniel
Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2000 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2537-2, ISBN: 0-8078-2537-9

"This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete Daniel demonstrates, the road into the 1950s took some unexpected turns.Daniel chronicles the myriad forces that turned the world southerners had known upside down in the postwar p ..."






Dispossession(1st Edition)
Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
by Professor Pete Daniel
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2207-1, ISBN: 1-4696-2207-6

"Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discriminati ..."






Deep'n as It Come(Reprint)
The 1927 Mississippi River Flood
by Professor Pete Daniel, Oxford University Press
Paperback, 221 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Arkansas Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-401-3, ISBN: 1-55728-401-6

"In the spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River's dev ..."






Standing at the Crossroads(Reprint)
Southern Life in the Twentieth Century
by Peter Daniel, Professor Pete Daniel
Paperback, 259 Pages, Published 1996 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-5495-8, ISBN: 0-8018-5495-4

"This engagingly-written survey examines the changes and constants of Southern culture. Always with a keen eye and sharp wit, Daniel stresses the diversity of Southern life, which includes not only regional variations but also divisions between black and white, male and female, rural and urban. From "separate but equal" to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s and its legacy, Standing at the Crossroads explores the extraordinary chang ..."






Shadow of Slavery(5th Edition)
Peonage in the South, 1901-69 (Galaxy Books)
by Pete Daniel
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1973 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-519742-6, ISBN: 0-19-519742-9






Official Images(1st Edition)
New Deal Photography
by Pete Daniel, Merry A. Foresta, Sally Stein, Maren Stange
Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 1987 by Smithsonian Inst Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-87474-349-4, ISBN: 0-87474-349-4

"Photographs portray social conditions during the Depression and depict the New Deal government programs"






A Talent for Detail(1st Edition)
The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston 1889 -- 1910
by Raymond W. Smock, Pete Daniel, Frances Benjamin Johnston
Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 1974 by Harmony Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-517-51643-0, ISBN: 0-517-51643-8






Deep'n as it Come(1st Edition)
The 1927 Mississippi River Flood
by Pete Daniel
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 1977 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-502123-3, ISBN: 0-19-502123-1






Deep'n as it come(1st Edition)
The 1927 Mississippi River flood
by Pete Daniel
Hardcover, 162 Pages, Published 1977 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-502122-6, ISBN: 0-19-502122-3






Toxic Drift
Pesticides and Health in the Post--World War II South (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
by Professor Pete Daniel, Toxic Drift
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3245-6, ISBN: 0-8071-3245-4

"Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market. In Toxic Drift, Daniel documents the particularly disastrous effects this campaign had on the South's public health and environment, exposing the careless mentality that allowed ..."






The shadow of slavery(1st Edition)
peonage in the South, 1901-1969
by Pete Daniel
Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 1972 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-00206-9, ISBN: 0-252-00206-7

"Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death. Pete Daniel's book is about this la ..."






Toxic Drift
Pesticides And Health in the Post-world War II South (WALTER LYNWOOD FLEMING LECTURES IN SOUTHERN HISTORY)
by Pete Daniel
Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 2005 by Louisiana State Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3098-8, ISBN: 0-8071-3098-2

"Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals such as DDT, which had been developed to help the military fight typhoid and malaria abroad, as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market. In Toxic Drift, Daniel documents the particularly disastrous effects this campaign h ..."






Shapers of Southern History
Autobiographical Reflections
by John Boles, Anne Scott, Anthony Badger, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Jack P. Greene, Charles Joyner, Dan Carter, Darlene Hine, Drew Faust, Edward Ayers, Orville Vernon Burton, John Franklin, Peter H. Wood, Pete Daniel, Suzanne Lebsock, Bill C. Malone
Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5252-7, ISBN: 0-8203-5252-7

"This volume gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field's richness on many levels. As they reflect on why they joined the profession and chose their particular research specialties, these historians write eloquently of family and upbringing, teachers ..."






Dispossession
Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
by Pete Daniel
352 Pages, Published 2013 by Unc Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-0202-8, ISBN: 1-4696-0202-4

"“I should tell them about how my father had the title 'Negro County Agent,' was paid a fraction of the salary of his white counterpart, and ... and endured as a formidable segregated fortress that fiercely resisted implementing civil rights laws or serving its black clientele. ... Black 4-H agents did not learn of crucial meetings, announcements, or projects. ... on black members.16 Georgia director of extension Linton W. Eberhardt ..."






Lost Revolutions
The South in The 1950s
by Pete Daniel
392 Pages, Published 2000 by Univ Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-9891-8, ISBN: 0-8078-9891-0

"The inspiration for the North Carolina Patriots may well have sprouted from Wesley Critz George's letter to the editor of the ... In his letter, George employed conventional racist thought, genetics, and his interpretation of history. ... course of time will result in the destruction of the white and colored races and the substitution of a mulatto race,” he predicted. ... Blacks had less “intellectual ability and creativeness” than ..."






Aulus Gellius(1st Edition)
by Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Pete Daniel
Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 1989 by Univ Of North Carolina Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-1818-3, ISBN: 0-8078-1818-6

"Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of "classical" and "humanities." His Attic Nights contains information on many aspects of antiquity, and preserve much early Latin literature that would otherwise be lost; they also offer personal reminiscences and vignettes of life in the second century AD. This comprehensive study examines his life and writings. It has been fully revised in the light of recent work.A UNC Press Enduring Edition - ..."






The Historian behind the History(2nd Edition)
Conversations with Southern Historians
by Megan L. Bever, Scott A. Suarez, Dan T. Carter, Laura F. Edwards, William Freehling, Theodore Rosengarten, Professor Pete Daniel, Gary W. Gallagher, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, James M. Mcpherson, J. Mills Thornton, George C. Rable
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2014 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1851-2, ISBN: 0-8173-1851-8

"The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern historians and mentors illuminate the state of historiography, their experiences in the profession, and their thoughts about graduate educat ..."






Master Guide to the American History Slide Collection
by Raymond W. Smock, Pete Daniel, William M. Stowe
265 Pages, Published 1977
ISBN-13: 978-0-923805-00-5, ISBN: 0-923805-00-1






The American History Slide Collection
by Raymond W. Smock, Pete Daniel
Published 1977
ISBN-13: 978-0-923805-06-7, ISBN: 0-923805-06-0






Cornbread Nation 5(10th Edition)
The Best of Southern Food Writing (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern Food Writing)
by Fred W. Sauceman, John T. Edge, Marcie Ferris, Edna Lewis, Jennifer Justus, Scott Peacock, Martha Stamps, Molly O'neill, Dan Huntley, Marilyn Kallet, Carroll Leggett, Beth Fennelly, Kathleen Purvis, Robb Walsh, Ben Barker, Julia Reed, Alan Deutschman, Rheta Johnson, Kevin Young, Amy Evans, Martha Foose, Brett Anderson, Crescent Dragonwagon, Sara Roahen, John, Dr Fred Thompson, Jessica B. Harris, Roy Blount Jr., John Martin Taylor, Sylvia Woods Har, Elizabeth Alexander, Barbara Kingsolver, Margaret Carr, Anthony Cavender, Charles C. Doyle, David Ramsey, Kara Carden, Katherine Whitworth, Jeffrey Gettleman, Garland Strother, Jack Neely, Chuck Shuford, Marianne Worthington, Kathryn Eastburn, Neely Barnwell Dykshorn, Lucretia Bingham, Susan Shelton, Lee Walburn, Salley Shannon, Michelle Healy, Dr Anne Martin, Tore C. Olsson, Joan Nathan, Mei Chin, George Motz, Corby Kummer, Andrew Huse, John S. Forrester, Robert St. John, Bill Archer, Devon Brenner, Donna Tartt, Francine Maroukian, John Simpkins, John Shelton Reed, Professor Pete Daniel, Ari Weinzweig, John Reed, Pete Daniel, Sara Camp Milam, John Edge, Ari Weinzwieg, Fred William Sauceman
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3507-0, ISBN: 0-8203-3507-X

"The fifth volume in this popular series from the Southern Foodways Alliance spans the food cultures of the South Cornbread Nation 5 lovingly edited by accomplished food writer Fred W Sauceman celebrates food and the ways in which it forges unexpected relationships between people and places In this collection of more than seventy essays and poems we read about the food that provides nourishment as well as a sense of community and shared ..."



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