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Editorial Reviews
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Designed as a textbook for use in North Carolina history classes, this is a useful one-volume history of the state. But there are flaws. The style is standard textbook English, making for rather dull reading. Arts and literature receive only about three pages of text, leaving the impression the state has been a vast cultural wasteland for 400 years. The emphasis is on the positive, e.g., lynching is dismissed as "an unfortunate blot on the record of North Carolina." Though nothing new is added to the interpretation of the state's history, this book will no doubt become the standard state history due to its attempted comprehensiveness. Certainly no North Carolina library will wish to be without a copy.
- Melvin L. Grotberg, Hobbs P.L., N.M.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative that makes North Carolina history accessible to both students and general readers. For years to come, this will be the standard college text and an essential reference for home and office.
Designed as a textbook for use in North Carolina history classes, this is a useful one-volume history of the state. But there are flaws. The style is standard textbook English, making for rather dull reading. Arts and literature receive only about three pages of text, leaving the impression the state has been a vast cultural wasteland for 400 years. The emphasis is on the positive, e.g., lynching is dismissed as "an unfortunate blot on the record of North Carolina." Though nothing new is added to the interpretation of the state's history, this book will no doubt become the standard state history due to its attempted comprehensiveness. Certainly no North Carolina library will wish to be without a copy.
- Melvin L. Grotberg, Hobbs P.L., N.M.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative that makes North Carolina history accessible to both students and general readers. For years to come, this will be the standard college text and an essential reference for home and office.
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THE VARIED features of the land in North Carolina have had a pronounced effect on its development. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North Carolina, General Assembly, United States, North Carolinians, South Carolina, Chapel Hill, New Bern, New York, Cape Fear River, American Revolution, Provincial Congress, Charles Town, Roanoke Island, World War, Great Britain, Continental Congress, House of Commons, New England, Outer Banks, Albemarle Sound, Lords Proprietors, James Iredell, George Washington, West Indies, King George New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
THE VARIED features of the land in North Carolina have had a pronounced effect on its development. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blank patents, proclamation money Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, General Assembly, United States, North Carolinians, South Carolina, Chapel Hill, New Bern, New York, Cape Fear River, American Revolution, Provincial Congress, Charles Town, Roanoke Island, World War, Great Britain, Continental Congress, House of Commons, New England, Outer Banks, Albemarle Sound, Lords Proprietors, James Iredell, George Washington, West Indies, King George New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History by Lindley S. Butler on 8 pages
- The Declaration Of Independence by Sam Fink on page 184, page 440, and