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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
Autor principal: Powell, William S., 1919-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > State & Local.
United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).
HISTORY.
North Carolina.
Caroline du Nord > Politique et gouvernement.
Caroline du Nord > Histoire.
North Carolina > Politics and government.
North Carolina > History.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 state has been a vast cultural wasteland for 400 years. The emphasis is on the positive, e.g., lynching is dismissed as "an unfortunate blot on the record of North Carolina." Though nothing new is added to the interpretation of the state's history, this book will no doubt become the standard s.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (670 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469604466

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