Arkansas: a Narrative History

Name: Arkansas: a Narrative History
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ISBN: 9781557289933

ISBN-10: 155728993X

ISBN-13: 9781557289933

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo, Morris S. Arnold, Joseph Swain

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Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and incorporate the newest historiography to bring the book up to date for 2012.A new chapter on Arkansas geography, new material on the civil rights movement and the struggle over integration, and an examination of the state's transition from a colonial economic model to participation in the global political economy are included. Maps are also dramatically enhanced, and supplemental teaching materials are…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 6/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 600
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 3.256
Language: English

Thomas A. DeBlack is an associate professor of history at Arkansas Tech University. He is the co-author of Arkansas: A Narrative History (Arkansas, 2002) and the co-editor of The Southern Elite and Social Change: Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood (Arkansas, 2002).

George Sabo III is professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas. His publications include Rock Art in Arkansas and Paths of Our Children: Historic Indians of Arkansas.



Foreword to the Second Edition



Foreword to the First Edition



Preface


Acknowledgments



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


Suggested Readings


List of Contributors


Index