Missouri : The Heart of the Nation
ISBN: 9780882959962 | 0882959964
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 6/5/2012
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Combining a chronological overview with topical development, this team of esteemed authors presents in engaging detail the rich and varied history of Missouri, a state that has played a pivotal role in the nation's history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. In a clear engaging style that all students of Missouri history are certain to enjoy, the authors explore such subjects as Missouri's Indian peoples, French and Spanish settlement, slavery, the American Civil War and Reconstruction, politics from territorial days to the present, c... MORE
| Introduction to the Third Edition | vii | ||
| One The Original Missourians | 1 | (17) | |
| Two The French and the Spanish | 18 | (21) | |
| Three The Coming of the Americans and the Statehood Crisis | 39 | (25) | |
| Four Missouri and the Openin... MORE | 64 | (20) | |
| Five The Age of Benton | 84 | (25) | |
| Six Slavery in Missouri | 109 | (22) | |
| Seven Political Turmoil and the Kansas War | 131 | (22) | |
| Eight An Expanding Missouri, 1830-1860 | 153 | (19) | |
| Nine The Civil War | 172 | (25) | |
| Ten Radical Rule | 197 | (26) | |
| Eleven A Maturing Economy, 1860-1890 | 223 | (22) | |
| Twelve Angry Farmers and Urban Reformers | 245 | (22) | |
| Thirteen Missouri Develops Culturally | 267 | (23) | |
| Fourteen World War I and the 1920's | 290 | (25) | |
| Fifteen The Pendergast Era | 315 | (21) | |
| Sixteen The 1945 Constitution and Postwar Politics | 336 | (24) | |
| Seventeen An Urbanizing Missouri: Postwar Economic Development | 360 | (20) | |
| Eighteen Modern Missouri: Educational and Cultural Development | 380 | (21) | |
| Nineteen Missouri During the 1980's | 401 | (16) | |
| Twenty Missouri Since the 1990's | 417 | (26) | |
| Appendix | 443 | (4) | |
| Index | 447 |
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