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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795235603321

Autore

Whayne Jeannie M

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : , : The University of Arkansas Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-61075-043-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (601 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

976.7

Soggetti

Arkansas History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.