North Carolina : through four centuries

North Carolina : through four centuries / William S. Powell.

Author/creator	Powell, William S., 1919-2015
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989.
Description	xv, 652 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	History, Modern 1601---North Carolina. North Carolina--History. North Carolina--Politics and government.

Contents	Natural features and native peoples -- Exploration and early settlement -- A proprietary colony, 1663-1729 -- Royal government -- Colonial society and culture, 1729-1776 -- Colonial economy: agriculture, trade, and communication -- Sectional controversies in the colony -- A decade of dispute -- Attaining independence -- A free state -- A Jeffersonian Republic -- A state asleep -- The vision of Archibald D. Murphey -- The Constitutional Convention of 1835 -- The Whig Era, 1835-1850 -- A change in midstream -- The economy and antebellum society -- The coming of the Civil War -- The Civil War -- A state made new -- A fresh start -- A time of readjustment -- Great anticipation for the Twentieth Century -- Down but not out: the state survives the Great Depression -- New points to ponder in a restless world -- A new face for the state -- The state looks to the future -- Appendixes.
Local note	Little-284758
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-615) and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN	88007691
ISBN	080781850X
ISBN	9780807818503