Arkansas: A Narrative HistoryFour distinguished scholars, each focusing on a particular era, track the tensions, negotiations, and interactions among the different groups of people who have counted Arkansas as home. George Sabo III discusses Native American prehistory and the shocks of climate change and European arrival. He explores how surviving native groups carried forward economic and docial institutions, which in turn proved crucial to early colonists. Morris S. Arnold examines the native communities and the roles of minority groups and women in the development of law, government, and religion; the production of goods; and market economies. Jeannie M. Whayne shows how these multicultural relationships unfolded during hte subsequent era of American settlement. But mutuality ended when white settlers transplanted plantation agriculture and slavery to formerly native lands. Thomas DeBlack shows that the plantation society, while prosperous, also brought the state into the Civil War. He analyzes banking fiascoes, the state's reputation for violence, the mixed blessings of statehood, and the war itself. Whayne returns to discuss different groups' access to the political process; prostwar economic issues, including women's work; and the interrelated problems of industrialization, education, and race relations. The Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, transformed political and social landscapes, but vestiges of the old attitudes and prejudices remain in place. |
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... agriculture and slavery . The growing importance of unequal relationships shaped the drive for statehood . Thomas DeBlack shows how the prosperity of the plantation society also brought the state into the Civil War . He describes the ...
... agriculture and slavery . The growing importance of unequal relationships shaped the drive for statehood . Thomas DeBlack shows how the prosperity of the plantation society also brought the state into the Civil War . He describes the ...
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... agriculture , and efforts to industrialize . In the process they provide a wealth of information that illuminates simi- larities and differences that existed between the course traveled by Arkansas and those traveled by other southern ...
... agriculture , and efforts to industrialize . In the process they provide a wealth of information that illuminates simi- larities and differences that existed between the course traveled by Arkansas and those traveled by other southern ...
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... agricultural lands that provided crops to European immigrants , and Quapaw and Osage hunters produced meat and other products , including hides , tallow , and bear oil , that became important commodities in colonial exchange economies ...
... agricultural lands that provided crops to European immigrants , and Quapaw and Osage hunters produced meat and other products , including hides , tallow , and bear oil , that became important commodities in colonial exchange economies ...
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... agriculture and slavery to lands previously occupied by the Quapaws and other indigenous groups . The removal of Native Americans from Arkansas occurred in the 1820s and 1830s against a backdrop of political intrigue involving competing ...
... agriculture and slavery to lands previously occupied by the Quapaws and other indigenous groups . The removal of Native Americans from Arkansas occurred in the 1820s and 1830s against a backdrop of political intrigue involving competing ...
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... agricultural economy . Arkansas's industrial boost- ers faced insurmountable problems not simply because leading agriculturalists were reluctant to support industrialization but also because of a lack of concentrated popu- lations ...
... agricultural economy . Arkansas's industrial boost- ers faced insurmountable problems not simply because leading agriculturalists were reluctant to support industrialization but also because of a lack of concentrated popu- lations ...
Contents
Native American Prehistory | xv |
Spanish and French Explorations in the Mississippi Valley | 18 |
New Traditions for a New World Seventeenth and EighteenthCentury Native Americans in Arkansas | 31 |
Indians and Immigrants in the Arkansas Colonial Era | 44 |
The Turbulent Path to Statehood Arkansas Territory 18031836 | 73 |
The Rights and Rank to Which We Are Entitled Arkansas in the Early Statehood Period | 107 |
Prosperity and Peril Arkansas in the Late Antebellum Period | 133 |
Between the Hawk Buzzard The Civil War in Arkansas | 164 |
Prosperity Eluded Era of Transition 18801900 | 238 |
Reasonable Progress Limits of Progressive Reform | 270 |
Darker Forces on the Horizon Natural Disasters and Great Depression | 301 |
Turmoil and Change Toward a New Arkansas | 334 |
Dramatic Departures Political Demographic and Economic Realignment | 370 |
Suggested Readings | 399 |
Contributors | 415 |
Index | 417 |
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