Edited by WILLIAM F. HOLMES, xxiv + 288 pages, frontispiece The last hundred years have brought dramatic and sometimes disturbing changes to Georgia. Big cities and their sprawling suburbs, industry and urban blight, as well as greater incomes, better educations and social reform, came inevitably, despite persistent poverty and race-hating demagogues. Some thirty documents, or groups of documents, give firsthand reports of sharecropping, race riots, lynchings, the chain gang, segregation and desegregation, Gene Talmadge's "dictatorship," the vision of M. L. King, Jr., Jimmy Carter's first campaign. However, as Georgia hurtles into the future, the state's identity and traditions are being sacrificed to a homogenized mass-market culture on an altar of uncertain "progress." William F. Holmes is professor of history at the University of Georgia. Book Six in the Documentary History of Georgia series. isbn 0-88322-019-9 hardcover$40.00 The Beehive Foundation Post Office Box 1121 Savannah, Georgia 31402 These books are published without profit as an educational service. Keywords: The Beehive Foundation, The Beehive Press, Books About the South, Southern History, books, gift books, coffee-table books, coffee table books, presents, publiser, publishing, press, architecture, civil war, old south, slavery, southern plantations, documentary histories, restoration, Savannah, Georgia, scholar, historian, author, Mills Lane, Mills Bee Lane, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Architecture of the Old South, Charleston, confederacy, colonial, revolutionary war, sherman, greek revival, romantic, antebellum, federal, Free Joe, Trouble in July, I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang, Robert E. Burns, a milestone in the publishing of books on georgia and the south, books that are artistic, important and beautiful, bee-hive, behive, small press, non-profit, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, birthday presents.