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Durham County : a history of Durham County, North Carolina / Jean Bradley Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Jean Bradley.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Durham County (N.C.)--History.
- Durham County (N.C.).
- Durham (N.C.)--History.
- Durham (N.C.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (664 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
- Contents:
- Land for the taking : prehistory-1740s
- Moving in, 1740s-1771
- The American Revolution
- Eighteenth-century Orange County, 1752-1800
- The Rip Van Winkle era, 1801-1840
- Improvement fever, 1840-1861
- Origins of the town of Durham, 1819?-1861
- Victory from defeat, 1861-1865
- From bust to boom, 1865-1880
- A house divided : an independent Black culture, 1865?-1880
- A county at last, 1880?-1890
- The apogee of an era, 1890-1903
- Social challenges, 1900-1917
- The face of change, 1903-1917
- Joining the world, 1917-1924
- Elation and depression, 1925-1941
- World War II and the end of an era, 1941-1945
- The old order changeth, 1946-1969
- Civil rights, 1954-1978
- Rounding out a century, 1960-1981
- City and county to century's end
- Appendix: Population statistics and officeholders.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613266019
- 9781283266017
- 1283266016
- 9780822394044
- 0822394049
- OCLC:
- 746557397
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