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Summary, a bit out of date, but still good,
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This review is from: North Carolina: A History (Paperback)
This short history of North Carolina is a selective history, told from a very summary level, but that's not a criticism as much as simply a general observation. It's a very rapid read, and a well-written concise history. It's meant for the general reader, and is not intended to be a scholarly work, per se.
The first three quarters of the text are dedicated to the period before the Civil War, and the colonial period gets extensive treatment, particularly the details of foundation. There's very little here about the Civil War at all, and even less about modern North Carolina. I would call this a history of "Old North Carolina." Powell's narrative style is lovely.
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Great facts but the photographs are outdated,
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I thought the book gave very detailed facts and important information about our great state and the people in it. The photographs are old, but it is actuallt kind of neat to see people and cars from the sixties. It is also interesting to compare our view of North Carolina now with the view of NC from the sixties.
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ENGLISHMEN, lacking detailed information about the part of North America to which they sent colonists in the seventeenth century, marked off administrative units in a very arbitrary manner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North Carolina, United States, North Carolinians, South Carolina, General Assembly, Chapel Hill, New York, New Bern, Cape Fear River, World War, Charles Town, Outer Banks, High Point, New World, Great Britain, New England, Roanoke Island, Duke University, West Indies, Caswell County, Chesapeake Bay, Governor Martin, Highland Scots, John Harvey, North America New!
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ENGLISHMEN, lacking detailed information about the part of North America to which they sent colonists in the seventeenth century, marked off administrative units in a very arbitrary manner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North Carolina, United States, North Carolinians, South Carolina, General Assembly, Chapel Hill, New York, New Bern, Cape Fear River, World War, Charles Town, Outer Banks, High Point, New World, Great Britain, New England, Roanoke Island, Duke University, West Indies, Caswell County, Chesapeake Bay, Governor Martin, Highland Scots, John Harvey, North America New!
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- Getting Started by Freddie North on page 169, and page 171
- The Ethnic Southerners by George Brown Tindall on page 180, and page 182
- The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 by John Hope Franklin on page 179, and Back Matter
- Our English Heritage by Gerald W. Johnson on page 19, and page 37
- Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear by William McKee Evans in Back Matter
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- A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Jon F. Sensbach on page 44, page 55, and Back Matter
- Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina by Kirsten Fischer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History by Lindley S. Butler on page 77, and page 99
- A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina (Religion in the South) by Walter H. Conser Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Liberty and Slavery : Southern Politics to 1860 by William J. Jr. Cooper in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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