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Inside Alabama : a personal history of my state / Harvey H. Jackson III.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Harvey H.
- Series:
- Alabama Fire Ant
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alabama--History.
- Alabama.
- Alabama--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the ""Heart of Dixie."" This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapologetically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for its colorful past, told by one of the state's most noted historians and educators, whose family came to the territory before statehood. A native and resident Alabamian, Harvey Jackson has spent a lifetime discovering and trying to understand his state. Expressing deep love for its people and culture, he is no less cr
- Contents:
- Back when it belonged to the Indians
- Frontier Alabama
- Becoming a state
- Antebellum Alabama
- Stumbling toward secession
- Secession and Civil War
- After the war that never ended
- A world made by Bourbons, for Bourbons
- White man's Alabama
- Depression and war
- Alabama after the war: "Big Jim" and beyond
- Old times there should not be forgotten
- The age of Wallace
- The age of Wallace and after
- Epilogue : To sum it up.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8199-6
- OCLC:
- 247978155
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