North Carolina : Change and Tradition in a Southern State

by Link, William A.

• ISBN13: 9780882952673
• ISBN10: 0882952676
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In this long-awaited survey history, William Link examines the fascinating history of North Carolina through the lens of strong but seemingly contradicto-ry historical patterns: powerful forces of traditional-ism punctuated by hierarchies of class, race relations, and gender that seemingly clashed, especially during the last century, with potent forces of modernisation and a "progressive" element that welcomed, even embraced, change. The result answers meaningful questions that all Tar Heels ask about the history and the future of the unique and quickly growing state they call home. Taking the North Carolina story from moments before first contact all the way to the elections of 2008, this book provides a great new resource for all college-level instructors and students of North Carolina history.

Author Biography

William A. Link, was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where he attended local public schools. Graduating from Davidson College in 1976, he received the Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 1981.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Colonial North Carolina	p. 1
European Invasion	p. 3
The Emergence of North Carolina	p. 25
A Slave Society	p. 47
Suggested Readings	p. 65
The Revolutionary Republic	p. 69
Immigrants and the Backcountry World	p. 71
The Age of Revolution	p. 95
The New Republic	p. 121
Suggested Readings	p. 144
The Civil War Crisis	p. 149
Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina	p. 151
Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War	p. 173
The Civil War	p. 191
Suggested Readings	p. 211
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath	p. 215
Reconstruction	p. 217
Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era	p. 239
Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s	p. 258
Suggested Readings	p. 280
Modernizing North Carolina	p. 283
Progressive North Carolina	p. 285
World War I and the 1920s	p. 314
Depression, New Deal, and World War II	p. 338
Suggested Readings	p. 364
Toward the Twenty-first Century	p. 367
Postwar North Carolina	p. 369
The Civil Rights Revolution	p. 395
Modernizers and Traditionalists	p. 413
Suggested Readings	p. 441
Appendix	p. 443
State Symbols	p. 443
Govenors	p. 443
U.S. Senators	p. 446
North Carolina Population, 1790-2000	p. 449
Index	p. 450
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