Beschreibung:
Jeannie M. Whayne is university professor at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South and A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth Century Arkansas.
Offers a succinct one-volume history of Arkansas 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.