James Edward Oglethorpe
Subtitle: new perspectives on his life and legacy
By: edited by John C. Inscoe.
Contributors: Inscoe, John C., 1951-.; Georgia Historical Society.; James Edward Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission.; Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.)
Publisher: Georgia Historical Society; James Edward Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission; Oglethorpe University
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Savannah, Ga; [Atlanta, Ga.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Oglethorpe, James Edward, -- 1696-1785; Governors -- Georgia -- Biography.; Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "A tercentenary commemoration."

Chiefly a collection of previously published articles from various periodicals.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The vexed question of Oglethorpe's birth date / by Paul Stephen Hudson; value: James Edward Oglethorpe, sometime gentleman commoner of corpus / by Sir Keith Thomas; value: The prison death of Robert Castell and its impact on Georgia's founding / by Rodney M. Baine; value: Oglethorpe's forty Irish convicts / by Rodney M. Baine; value: Oglethorpe, Georgia, and the Spanish threat / by Phinizy Spalding; value: Behind the lines / by Harvey H. Jackson III; value: Oglethorpe's account of the 1745 escape of the Scots at Shap / by Edward J. Cashin; value: Oglethorpe as revolutionary propagandist / by Richard C. Cole; value: Profile of an old independent / by Phinizy Spalding; value: "Awake from visioned sleep!" / by Paul Stephen Hudson.