Arkansas: A Narrative History

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University of Arkansas Press, Jun 1, 2013 - History - 542 pages

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

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Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition by Ben F Johnson III
Foreword to the First Edition by Willard B Gatewood
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One A Land Inferior to None
Chapter Two Native American Prehistory
Chapter Three Spanish and French Explorations in the Mississippi Valley
Seventeenth and EighteenthCentury Native Americans in Arkansas
13
Reconstruction in Arkansas 18651880
199
Chapter Eleven Arkansas in the New South 18801900
235
Limits of Progressive Reform 19001920
265
Natural Disasters and Great Depression 19201940
313
Chapter Fourteen From World War to New Era 19401954
351
Chapter Fifteen Stumbling toward a New Arkansas 19541970
379
Chapter Sixteen Arkansas in the Sunbelt South 19701992
409
Chapter Seventeen The Burden of Arkansas History 19922012
441

Chapter Five Indians and Colonists in the Arkansas Country 16861803
27
Arkansas Territory 18031836
57
Arkansas in the Early Statehood Period 18361850
103
Arkansas in the Late Antebellum Period 18501861
129
The Civil War in Arkansas 18611865
161
Suggested Readings
475
List of Contributors
501
Index
503
Copyright

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Arkansas: A Narrative History
Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. Deblack,Morris S. Arnold
Limited preview - 2002
Arkansas: A Narrative History
Jeannie M. Whayne
Snippet view - 2002

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About the author (2013)

Jeannie M. Whayne is professor of history at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South.

Thomas A. DeBlack is professor of history at Arkansas Tech University. He is the author of With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861–1874.

George Sabo III is professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas. His publications include Rock Art in Arkansas and Paths of Our Children: Historic Indians of Arkansas.

Morris S. Arnold is a jurist of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and author of Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and the Old World Newcomers, 1673–1804.

Bibliographic information

TitleArkansas: A Narrative History
AuthorsJeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo, Morris S. Arnold
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press, 2013
ISBN155728993X, 9781557289933
Length542 pages
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Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities
History / General
History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  
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