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| Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Sound Recording |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Milton Ready |
| OCLC Number: | 180920355 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, c2005. |
| Description: | Sound disc : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents: | Great rift, the geography and geology of North Carolina -- Clash of cultures, Amerindians and Europeans in early North Carolina -- Chartered chaos, North Carolina under the proprietors -- Mosaic of colonial North Carolina -- Slavery and servitude in early North Carolina -- Resistance, regulators, and the rhetoric of rebellion in North Carolina, 1729-1771 -- Beginning of the revolution in North Carolina -- Cautious revolutionaries, North Carolina in the American Revolution, 1776-1780 -- Country dance, Cornwallis's march through North Carolina -- Jeffersonian state -- Antebellum North Carolina -- Cherokees -- State of indecision, North Carolina enters the Civil War -- Ebb tide of the Confederacy -- Deconstruction and reconstruction in North Carolina -- Trains, towns, textiles, and tobacco, North Carolina's vision of a new South -- Farmer's last stand -- Progressive state -- 1930s, new deals and old politics in North Carolina -- Civil rights and conservative reactions in North Carolina -- Triads, triangles, and parks, the urbanization of North Carolina -- Modern megastate. |
| Responsibility: | Milton Ready. |
Abstract:
[This book is a] chronicle of the state's storied past to date, culminating with a ... look at recent events that have transformed North Carolina into a southern megastate... [The author] begins with a study of the state's geography and then invites readers to revisit dramatic struggles of the American Revolution and Civil War, the early history of the Cherokees, the impact of slavery as an institution, the rise of industrial mills, and the changes wrought by modern information-based technologies since 1970. -Dust jacket.
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