James Edward Oglethorpe
Subtitle: new perspectives on his life and legacy
By: edited by John C. Inscoe
Publisher: Georgia Historical Society; James Edward Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission; Oglethorpe University
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Savannah, Ga.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Governors; Biography; History
Notes: "A tercentenary commemoration."

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