North Carolina Through Four Centuries

Author : William S. Powell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898987

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North Carolina Through Four Centuries by William S. Powell Pdf

This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative that makes North Carolina history accessible to both students and general readers. For years to come, this will be the standard college text and an essential reference for home and office.

Author : William S. Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0807842192

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North Carolina by William S. Powell Pdf

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Norton, c1977. With a new preface and concluding chapter by the author.

Author : Jack Claiborne,William Price
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620251

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Discovering North Carolina by Jack Claiborne,William Price Pdf

This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways. There are selections by or about some of the state's best-known sons and daughters, from Daniel Boone and Andrew Jackson to Ava Gardner, Doris Betts, and Tom Wicker; and topics covered include politics, sports, business, family life, education, race, religion, and war.

Author : Larry E. Tise,Jeffrey J. Crow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634609

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New Voyages to Carolina by Larry E. Tise,Jeffrey J. Crow Pdf

New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state's past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of "progressive" politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state's development. Contributors: Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina University Karl E. Campbell, Appalachian State University James C. Cobb, University of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen Feeley, McDaniel College Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology Charles F. Irons, Elon University David Moore, Warren Wilson College Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University Richard D. Starnes, Western Carolina University Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University

Author : Thomas C. Parramore,Peter C. Stewart,Tommy Bogger
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813919886

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Norfolk by Thomas C. Parramore,Peter C. Stewart,Tommy Bogger Pdf

This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.

Author : Peter Wallenstein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700619948

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Cradle of America by Peter Wallenstein Pdf

As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation’s early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the “cradle of America.” Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. The second edition is updated with new material throughout, including a new chapter on Virginia and world affairs from the Korean War through 9/11 and beyond, and, an expanded bibliography. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other’s visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia’s leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state’s dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation’s evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Carter G. Woodson, Patsy Cline, and L. Douglas Wilder. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia’s history.

Author : Chris Myers Asch,George Derek Musgrove
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469635873

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Chocolate City by Chris Myers Asch,George Derek Musgrove Pdf

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.

Author : David Stick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004210887

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An Outer Banks Reader by David Stick Pdf

Edited by the author of "Graveyard of the Atlantic" and "The Outer Banks of North Carolina", and spanning the course of more than four and a half centuries, this book presents 64 accounts of life on the Outer Banks.

Author : Thomas D. Rogers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807899585

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The Deepest Wounds by Thomas D. Rogers Pdf

In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming--the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow. Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, whose home state was Pernambuco, observed, "Monoculture, slavery, and latifundia--but principally monoculture--they opened here, in the life, the landscape, and the character of our people, the deepest wounds." Inspired by Freyre's insight, Rogers tells the story of Pernambuco's wounds, describing the connections among changing agricultural technologies, landscapes and human perceptions of them, labor practices, and agricultural and economic policy. This web of interrelated factors, Rogers argues, both shaped economic progress and left extensive environmental and human damage. Combining a study of workers with analysis of their landscape, Rogers offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that influences Brazil's development even today.

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0664222854

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In Our Own Voices by Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether Pdf

A rich collection of first-person renderings that both enhances and challenges traditional narratives of American religious life.

Author : Charles M. Hudson,American Society for Ethnohistory
Publisher : Athens : University of Georgia Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39076005535203

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Four Centuries of Southern Indians by Charles M. Hudson,American Society for Ethnohistory Pdf

Nine anthropological and historical studies of key social, cultural, political, and racial aspects of the lives and fates of the various chiefdoms native to the American Southeast. Bibliogs.

Author : Hans Krabbendam,Cornelis A. van Minnen,Giles Scott-Smith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438430157

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Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations by Hans Krabbendam,Cornelis A. van Minnen,Giles Scott-Smith Pdf

Since Henry Hudson landed on Manhattan in 1609, the peoples of the Netherlands and North America have been inextricably linked. Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, written by a team of nearly one hundred Dutch and American scholars, is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of this bilateral relationship. This volume covers the main paths of contacts, conflicts, and common plans, from the first exploratory contacts in the early seventeenth century to the intense and multifaceted exchanges in the early twenty-first. Based on the most up-to-date research, Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations will be for years to come a valuable and much-used reference work for anyone interested in the history and culture of the United States and the Netherlands and the larger transatlantic interdependent framework in which they are embedded.

Author : Helen C. Rountree
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0806128496

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Pocahontas's People by Helen C. Rountree Pdf

In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day way of life and relationship to the state of Virginia and the federal government. Roundtree’s examination of those four hundred years misses not a beat in the pulse of Powhatan life. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity, the author explores the diversity always found among Powhatan people, and those people’s relationships with the English, the government of the fledgling United States, the Union and the Confederacy, the U.S. Census Bureau, white supremacists, the U.S. Selective Service, and the civil rights movement.

Author : William S. Powell,Michael Hill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807898291

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The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed by William S. Powell,Michael Hill Pdf

The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers. This revised and expanded edition adds approximately 1,200 new entries, bringing to nearly 21,000 the number of North Carolina cities, towns, crossroads, waterways, mountains, and other places identified here. The stories attached to place names are at the core of the book and the reason why it has stood the test of time. Some recall faraway places: Bombay, Shanghai, Moscow, Berlin. Others paint the locality as a little piece of heaven on earth: Bliss, Splendor, Sweet Home. In many cases the name derivations are unusual, sometimes wildly so: Cat Square, Huggins Hell, Tater Hill, Whynot. Telling us much about our own history in these snapshot histories of particular locales, The North Carolina Gazetteer provides an engaging, authoritative, and fully updated reference to place names from all corners of the Tar Heel State.

Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : America
ISBN : IOWA:31858050169972

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The Achievements of Four Centuries by Benson John Lossing Pdf