| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 596 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
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| Contents |
Land for the taking : prehistory-1740s -- Moving in, 1740s-1771 -- The American Revolution -- Eighteenth-century Orange County, 1752-1800 -- The Rip Van Winkle era, 1801-1840 -- Improvement fever, 1840-1861 -- Origins of the town of Durham, 1819?-1861 -- Victory from defeat, 1861-1865 -- From bust to boom, 1865-1880 -- A house divided : an independent Black culture, 1865?-1880 -- A county at last, 1880?-1890 -- The apogee of an era, 1890-1903 -- Social challenges, 1900-1917 -- The face of change, 1903-1917 -- Joining the world, 1917-1924 -- Elation and depression, 1925-1941 -- World War II and the end of an era, 1941-1945 -- The old order changeth, 1946-1969 -- Civil rights, 1954-1978 -- Rounding out a century, 1960-1981 -- City and county to century's end -- Appendix: Population statistics and officeholders |
| Summary |
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-560) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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| SUBJECT |
Durham County (N.C.) -- History
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| Subject |
North Carolina -- Durham County.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822394044 |
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0822394049 |
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