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 III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whayne, Jeannie M.

Whayne, Jeannie M., author.

Contributor:

Johnson, Ben, III, writer of foreword.

Gatewood, Willard B., Jr. (Willard Badgett), 1931- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arkansas--History.

Arkansas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (601 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : The University of Arkansas Press, 2013.

Summary:

Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and incorporate the newest historiography to bring the book up to date for 2012. A new chapter on Arkansas geography, new material on the civil rights movement and the struggle over integration, and an examination of the state's transition from a colonial economic model to participation in the global political economy are included. Maps are also dramatically enhanced, and supplemental teaching materials are available. "No less than the first edition, this revision of Arkansas: A Narrative History is a compelling introduction for those who know little about the state and an insightful survey for others who wish to enrich their acquaintance with the Arkansas past." -Ben Johnson, from the Foreword

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61075-043-8

OCLC:

1007040850