North Carolina Change and Tradition in a Southern State

Name: North Carolina Change and Tradition in a Southern State
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ISBN: 9780882952673

ISBN-10: 0882952676

ISBN-13: 9780882952673

Edition: 2009

Authors: William S. Link, William A. Link

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In this long-awaited survey history, William Link examines the fascinating history of North Carolina through the lens of strong but seemingly contradicto-ry historical patterns: powerful forces of traditional-ism punctuated by hierarchies of class, race relations, and gender that seemingly clashed, especially during the last century, with potent forces of modernisation and a "progressive" element that welcomed, even embraced, change. The result answers meaningful questions that all Tar Heels ask about the history and the future of the unique and quickly growing state they call home. Taking the North Carolina story from moments before first contact all the way to the elections of 2008, this…

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List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 498
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452

William A. Link, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, is author of The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 and William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education.



Preface and Acknowledgments



Colonial North Carolina



European Invasion



The Emergence of North Carolina



A Slave Society


Suggested Readings



The Revolutionary Republic



Immigrants and the Backcountry World



The Age of Revolution



The New Republic


Suggested Readings



The Civil War Crisis



Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina



Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War



The Civil War


Suggested Readings



Reconstruction and Its Aftermath



Reconstruction



Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era



Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s


Suggested Readings



Modernizing North Carolina



Progressive North Carolina



World War I and the 1920s



Depression, New Deal, and World War II


Suggested Readings



Toward the Twenty-first Century



Postwar North Carolina



The Civil Rights Revolution



Modernizers and Traditionalists


Suggested Readings


Appendix


State Symbols


Govenors


U.S. Senators


North Carolina Population, 1790-2000


Index