Record details

• ISBN: 0807818461
• ISBN: 080781850X
• ISBN: 9780807818466
• ISBN: 9780807818503
• Physical Description: xv, 652 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
• Copyright: ©1989

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-615) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Natural features and native peoples -- Exploration and early settlement -- A proprietary colony, 1663-1729 -- Royal government -- Colonial society and culture, 1729-1776 -- Colonial economy: agriculture, trade, and communication -- Sectional controversies in the colony -- A decade of dispute -- Attaining independence -- A free state -- A Jeffersonian Republic -- A state asleep -- The vision of Archibald D. Murphey -- The Constitutional Convention of 1835 -- The Whig Era, 1835-1850 -- A change in midstream -- The economy and antebellum society -- The coming of the Civil War -- The Civil War -- A state made news -- A fresh start -- A time of readjustment -- Great anticipation for the Twentieth Century -- Down but not out: the state survives the Great Depression -- New points to ponder in a restless world -- A new face for the state -- The state looks to the future -- Appendixes.

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North Carolina > History.
North Carolina > Politics and government.