Arkansas : a narrative history / Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo III, Morris S. Arnold ; with a foreword to the first edition by Willard B. Gatewood, and a foreword to the second edition by Ben Johnson III.
Edition:
Second edition.
Publisher:
The University of Arkansas Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xvii, 542 pages, [40] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
A land "inferior to none" -- Native American prehistory -- Spanish and French explorations in the Mississippi Valley -- New traditions for a new world: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Native Americans in Arkansas -- Indians and colonists in the Arkansas country, 1686/1803 -- The turbulent path to statehood: Arkansas Territory, 1803/1836 -- "The rights and rank to which we are entitled": Arkansas in the early statehood period, 1836/1850 -- Prosperity and peril: Arkansas in the late antebellum period, 1850/1860 -- "Between the hawk & buzzard": the civil war in Arkansas, 1860/1865 -- "A harnessed revolution": reconstruction in Arkansas, 1865/1880 -- Arkansas in the New South, 1880/1900 -- A light in the darkness: limits of progressive reform, 1900/1920 -- Darker forces on the horizon: natural disasters and Great Depression, 1920/1940 -- From World War to New Era, 1940/1954 -- Stumbling toward a new Arkansas, 1954/1970 -- Arkansas in the sunbelt South, 1970/1992 -- The burden of Arkansas history, 1992/2012.
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