Arkansas
Subtitle: a narrative history
By: Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo III, Morris S. Arnold ; with a foreword to the first edition by Willard B. Gatewood, and a foreword to the second edition by Ben Johnson III
Contributors: DeBlack, Thomas A., 1951-; Sabo, George; Arnold, Morris S.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781557289933
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A land "inferior to none"; title: Native American prehistory; title: Spanish and French explorations in the Mississippi Valley; title: New traditions for a new world: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Native Americans in Arkansas; title: Indians and colonists in the Arkansas country, 1686/1803; title: The turbulent path to statehood: Arkansas Territory, 1803/1836; title: "The rights and rank to which we are entitled": Arkansas in the early statehood period, 1836/1850; title: Prosperity and peril: Arkansas in the late antebellum period, 1850/1860; title: "Between the hawk & buzzard": the civil war in Arkansas, 1860/1865; title: "A harnessed revolution": reconstruction in Arkansas, 1865/1880; title: Arkansas in the New South, 1880/1900; title: A light in the darkness: limits of progressive reform, 1900/1920; title: Darker forces on the horizon: natural disasters and Great Depression, 1920/1940; title: From World War to New Era, 1940/1954; title: Stumbling toward a new Arkansas, 1954/1970; title: Arkansas in the sunbelt South, 1970/1992; title: The burden of Arkansas history, 1992/2012.