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