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Alabama: The History of a Deep South State. Third Edition

Alabama: The History of a Deep South State. Third Edition

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著者・編者Rogers, William Warren / Ward, Robert David / Atkins, Leah Rawls / Flynt, Wayne,
出版社 (The University of Alabama Press, US)
出版年月2018
ページ数808 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A04-45043>

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A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama's history to celebrate the state's bicentennial.

Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state's bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama's evolution. Organized chronologically and divided into three main sections-the first concluding in 1865, the second in 1920, and the third bringing the story to the present-makes clear and interprets the major events that occurred during Alabama's history within the larger context of the South and the nation.

Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by a number of European nations prior to becoming a permanent part of the United States in 1819. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the nineteenth century, Alabama seceded in 1861 to join the Confederate States of America, and occupied an uneasy and uncertain place in America's post-Civil War landscape. Alabama's role in the twentieth century has been equally tumultuous and dramatic.

General readers as well as scholars will welcome this up-to-date and scrupulously researched history of Alabama, which examines such traditional subjects as politics, military history, economics, race, and class. It contains essential accounts devoted to Native Americans, women, and the environment, as well as detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil rights, and the many cultural developments, from literature to sport, that have enriched Alabama's history. The stories of individual leaders, from politicians to creative artists, are also highlighted. A key facet of this landmark historical narrative is the strong emphasis placed on the common everyday people of Alabama, those who have been rightly described as the "bone and sinew" of the state.