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North Carolina through four centuries
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North Carolina through four centuries

Author: William Stevens Powell
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Stevens Powell
ISBN: 0807818461 9780807818466 080781850X 9780807818503
OCLC Number: 18589517
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xv, 652 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: William S. Powell.
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