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North Carolina through four centuries /

Designed as a textbook for use in North Carolina history classes, this is a useful one-volume history of the state. But there are flaws. The style is standard textbook English, making for rather dull reading. Arts and literature receive only about three pages of text, leaving the impression the stat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Powell, William S., 1919-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Natural features and native peoples
  • Exploration and early settlement
  • A proprietary colony, 1663-1729
  • Royal government
  • Colonial society and culture, 1729-1776
  • Colonial economy: agriculture, trade, and communication
  • Sectional controversies in the colony
  • A decade of dispute
  • Attaining independence
  • A free state
  • A Jeffersonian Republic
  • A state asleep
  • The vision of Archibald D. Murphey
  • The Constitutional Convention of 1835
  • The Whig Era, 1835-1850
  • A change in midstream
  • The economy and antebellum society
  • The coming of the Civil War
  • The Civil War
  • A state made news
  • A fresh start
  • A time of readjustment
  • Great anticipation for the Twentieth Century
  • Down but not out: the state survives the Great Depression
  • New points to ponder in a restless world
  • A new face for the state
  • The state looks to the future
  • Appendixes.