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Buildings of Arkansas (Hardcover)
Cyrus A. Sutherland; As told to Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore, Jeannie M. Whayne
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From Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hot Springs to Jonesboro, El
Dorado, Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and scores of places in between,
the latest volume in the Buildings of the United States series
provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date
guide to the architecture of Arkansas. The result of a lifetime's
research and fieldwork by the esteemed historian and
preservationist Cyrus A. Sutherland, this book captures the range
and richness of the state's buildings and landscapes, whose stories
can prove as fascinating and gripping as a novel's plotline. Nearly
500 building entries, accompanied by more than 200 illustrations
and 24 maps, encompass the state's major regions-the Ozark Plateau,
the Arkansas River Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the West Gulf
Coastal Plain, and the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (commonly known
as the Delta). The places canvassed include everything from works
by Arkansas natives E. Fay Jones and Edward Durell Stone to Sam
Walton's Five-and-Ten and Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art to Bill Clinton's birthplace and presidential library.
The volume highlights the role and resilience of mountain, valley,
and Mississippi River communities; surveys significant state and
national parks; and traces the lively history of such resorts as
Hot Springs and Eureka Springs. Along the way, it offers compelling
accounts of sites from the well to the lesser known-the magnificent
Toltec Mounds near Scott, the New Deal-era Dyess Colony, Tyronza's
Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, the Rohwer Relocation Center and
McGehee Japanese American Internment Museum, Central High School in
Little Rock-and considers modern buildings that herald a
renaissance in the state's cultural, economic, and political
history.
Jeannie M. Whayne traces the emergence of a transformed southern
plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of
the Civil War. By manipulating laws and federal and state agencies
to gain control over land policy, Poinsett County planters fought
to maintain their place on the land amidst tenancy, sharecropping,
and the mechanization of farming.
Distilled from Arkansas: A Narrative History, the definitive work
on the subject since its original publication in 2002, Arkansas: A
Concise History is a succinct one-volume history of the state from
the prehistory period to the near-present. Featuring four
historians who have published extensively on a range of topics, the
volume introduces readers to the major issues that have confronted
the state and traces the evolution of those issues across time. The
book begins by situating the state geographically and geologically
and then moves on to chapters covering prehistory and precolonial
periods. These chapters, written by George Sabo III, director of
the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, ground the reader in the
important background of native peoples and their lifeways. Judge
Morris S. Arnold's chapter on the colonial period portrays the
colonial French and Spanish era and the interaction of those
Europeans with Native Americans, particularly the Quapaw Indians.
Civil War historian Tom DeBlack covers the territorial era, early
statehood, antebellum, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Jeannie
Whayne covers the period following Reconstruction including the
Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, World War I, the Elaine Race
Massacre, the Great Depression, WorldWar II and its aftermath, the
Civil Rights movement, bringing the book into the early
twenty-first century. Linking these moments together and placing an
emphasis on how economic decisions have informed Arkansas's
history, Arkansas: A Concise History puts perspective on the
political and economic realities the state continues to face today.
In 2002 a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars
gathered at the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and
Society at the University of Arkansas to provide a critical
evaluation of the Clinton-Gore administration. Their groundbreaking
assessment of the most controversial president in modern times
treats such crucial topics as race, women, and minorities; the
character issue; foreign policy; and the media. This book provides
a unique vantage point on the "Clinton riddle" that all future
studies will need to consider.
Bringing together the work of prominent scholars and rising stars
in southern, western, and Indian history, A Whole Country in
Commotion explores lesser-known aspects of one of the better-known
episodes in U.S. history. While the purchase has been seen as a
great boon for the United States, doubling the size of the new
nation and securing American navigation on the Mississippi River,
it also brought turmoil to many. Looking past the triumphal aspects
of the purchase, this book examines the "negotiations among
peoples, nations and empires that preceded and followed the actual
transfer of territory." Its nine essays highlight the "commotion"
the purchase stirred up-among nations, among Louisiana residents
and newcomers, even among those who remained east of the
Mississippi. Many of these essays look at the portion of the
Louisiana territory that would become Arkansas to illustrate the
profound impact of the purchase on the diverse populations of the
American Southwest. Others explore the woeful commotion brought to
many thousands of lives as Jefferson's "noble bargain" set the
stage for the forced migration of native and African Americans from
the east to the west of the Mississippi.
Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the
state that has been invaluable to students and the general public
since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover
prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries and incorporate the newest historiography to
bring the book up to date for 2012. A new chapter on Arkansas
geography, new material on the civil rights movement and the
struggle over integration, and an examination of the state's
transition from a colonial economic model to participation in the
global political economy are included. Maps are also dramatically
enhanced, and supplemental teaching materials are available.
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