The tar heel state : a history of North Carolina / Milton Ready.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ready, Milton, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Carolina--History.

North Carolina.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 404 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2005]

Contents:

The great rift : the geography and geology of North Carolina

A clash of cultures : Amerindians and Europeans in early North Carolina

A chartered chaos : North Carolina under the proprietors

A mosaic of colonial North Carolina

Slavery and servitude in early North Carolina

Resistance, regulators, and the rhetoric of rebellion in North Carolina, 1729-1771

The beginning of the revolution in North Carolina

Cautious revolutionaries : North Carolina in the American Revolution, 1776-1780

A country dance : Cornwallis's march through North Carolina

A Jeffersonian state

Antebellum North Carolina

The Cherokees

A 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

The farmer's last stand

A progressive state

The 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

A modern megastate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1570035911

OCLC:

58976124