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| Georgia Odyssey | 
| Author: James C. Cobb
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 748556
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0820319457
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.8
EAN: 9780820319452
ASIN: 0820319457
Publication Date: January 1998
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Georgia Odyssey is a panoramic survey of Georgia history, from British colony to international business mecca, from Jim Crow to Jimmy Carter, from Gone with the Wind to the centennial Olympic Games. Originally published as part of The New Georgia Guide, this expanded version of Georgia Odyssey is an essential text for students and scholars. Historian James C. Cobb, a Georgia native, debunks familiar myths and reveals new insights in his interpretation of the state's complex past. Not all of the past is pleasant to recall, Cobb notes, but any attempt to understand the character and personality of contemporary Georgia must take into account its sometimes disturbing, sometimes appealing, but always rich and eventful historical odyssey. Not all of today's Georgians might express themselves quite as unequivocally as the South Georgia tobacco farmer who informed a visiting journalist in 1938 that "we Georgians are Georgian as hell" but, on the other hand, a great many others not only care deeply about the state's identity but consider it integral to their own. Georgia Odyssey is the ideal introduction to our past, present, and future. "An excellent window through which to take, honest measure of the state". -- The Times Literary Supplement
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 Introduction but no insight December 29, 2003
Go ahead and spend a couple more dollars and pick up a copy of the "New Georgia Guide." You'll get Dr. Cobb's "Georgia Odyssey" and the abbreviated history of almost every little town, community, nook, and cranny of Georgia. Historically speaking, Cobb achieved the task the the State asked him, write a consise history of Georgia. The book is a valuable asset to an intro to local history class, but the "New Georgia Guide" is full of those tasty tidbits Cobb, was probably forced, to leave out.
 A down to earth view of Georgia and its people November 8, 2002
Dr. Jim Cobb has written a marvelous volume on the state of Georgia and the changes that have molded it since precolonial days. He delves into the different socioeconomic, cultural and political arenas of Gerogia's history and shows us the State, warts and all, as it has been transformed over the last 200+ years. Prof. Cobb writes as only one who has lived and truly understands and loves the South can. A very satisfying read.P.S.- It didn't hurt any to have had this fine gentleman as my old high school history teacher in his pre-University/academic days!
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