Tom Okie
Biographic Data
| ID | 2304584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Okie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Okie |
| SIGNATURE | OKIE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kennesaw State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Southern Cuisine and the Future of Food History
The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region, by Marcie Cohen Ferris. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiv, 477 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine, by David S. Shields. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2015. xvi, 401 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). SOUTHERN FOOD IS HOT The Southern Cuisine--thanks to luminaries like Edna Lewis, Vivian Howard, Bill Nea…
The American Yawp
Historians have been urging each other to ditch their textbooks for the last several years. (See, for example, Lendol Calder, “Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey,” Journal of American History, March 2006, pp. 1358–70.) Textbooks are often boring, written by committee, unable to render the arguments that make history something more than “what happened.” Textbooks are also expensive, especially as students graduate with …
Under the Trees
The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledging their allegiance to the "Queen of Fruits." This portrayal is partly true; unlike other proposed alternatives to cotton, peaches flourished in many places. But the history of the "labor problem" in the Georgia peach belt makes it clear that pe…
Under the Trees
The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledging their allegiance to the "Queen of Fruits." This portrayal is partly true; unlike other proposed alternatives to cotton, peaches flourished in many places. But the history of the "labor problem" in the Georgia peach belt makes it clear that pe…
Under the Trees
The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledging their allegiance to the "Queen of Fruits." This portrayal is partly true; unlike other proposed alternatives to cotton, peaches flourished in many places. But the history of the "labor problem" in the Georgia peach belt makes it clear that pe…
Southern Cuisine and the Future of Food History
The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region, by Marcie Cohen Ferris. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiv, 477 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine, by David S. Shields. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2015. xvi, 401 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). SOUTHERN FOOD IS HOT The Southern Cuisine--thanks to luminaries like Edna Lewis, Vivian Howard, Bill Nea…
The American Yawp
Historians have been urging each other to ditch their textbooks for the last several years. (See, for example, Lendol Calder, “Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey,” Journal of American History, March 2006, pp. 1358–70.) Textbooks are often boring, written by committee, unable to render the arguments that make history something more than “what happened.” Textbooks are also expensive, especially as students graduate with …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Agricultural economics (1 works) · Allegiance (1 works) · Alliance (1 works) · American history (1 works)