Arkansas : a narrative history / Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo III, Morris S. Arnold ; with a foreword to the first edition by Willard B. Gatewood, and a foreword to the second edition by Ben Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whayne, Jeannie M.

Contributor:

DeBlack, Thomas A., 1951-

Sabo, George.

Arnold, Morris S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arkansas--History.

Arkansas.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 542 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2013.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781557289933

155728993X

OCLC:

819741624