This Place of Promise : A Historian's Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History / Gary R. Kremer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kremer, Gary R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missouri--History.

Missouri.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This book highlights the ways in which the forces of history have shaped the lives of Missouri's residents, for good and bad, over the course of 200 years of statehood. Among the key elements of the book is the centrality of race to the Missouri experience, the continuing struggle over the role of government in individual lives, the causes and consequences of the decline in agrarianism and the rise in urbanization in the 20th century, and the ways in which Missourians have dealt with challenges such as war, pandemics, economic depression, and political discord throughout the history of the state"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : my Missouri

Coming to Missouri : Missouri and Missourians on the eve of statehood

Missourians' struggle for statehood - Settlement and civilization in post-frontier Missouri

Turbulence in Civil War Missouri

Post-Civil War Missouri : an age of Reconstruction and railroads, 1865-1900

Missouri in the new century : urbanizing Missouri, 1900-1930

Missouri in crisis : the Great Depression and World War II

Hope and change in post-World War II Missouri, 1945-1969

Suburban growth and rural decline : Missouri in the late twentieth century, 1970-2000

The twenty-first century : challenges in the new millennium

Epilogue : Missouri : land of promise.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826222480

082622248X

OCLC:

1272999488