Alabama : the history of a Deep South state /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Bicentennial edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the bicentennial edition
- Alabama: a prospect
- Part 1. From early times to the end of the Civil War / Leah Rawls Atkins. Native peoples of Alabama; European exploration and colonization in Alabama; Creeks and Americans at war; Land in the Alabama wilderness beckons; The early years: defining the issues; The early years: confronting the issues; The cotton kingdom; Antebellum Society; Party politics and states' rights; Yancey and the Alabama platform; The secession crisis; At war with the Union; The home front
- Part 2. From 1865 through 1920 / William Warren Rogers and Robert David Ward. Reconstruction: the second beginning; Radical reconstruction; The Bourbon oligarchy and tehe new old south; The agricultural alternative and the rise of industry; New winds and old voices; The defeat of reform; Politics, education, and the "splendid little war"; The constitution of 1901; The chimerical impulse of progressivism; Women in Alabama from 1865 to 1920; Domestic issues, the creative state, and the Great War
- Part 3. From the 1920s to 2018 / Wayne Flynt. The politics of reform and stability during the 1920s; Change and stability during the roaring twenties; hard times, 1930-1940; How new a deal in Alabama?; A state forged by war, 1940-1954; The flowering of Alabama liberalism: politics and society during the 1940s and 1950s; A time to hate: racial confrontation, 1955-1970; Racial politics and economic stagnation; A time to heal: struggling to find a new vision, 1970-2018; Gender, "jocks" and Shakespeare: Alabama society and culture, 1970-2018-- Alabama: past and future
- Appendix A: Governors of Alabama
- Appendix B: Counties of Alabama