Discovering North Carolina - A Tar Heel Reader

This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolinas rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways.

About the author

Jack Claiborne, longtime associate editor of The Charlotte Observer, is now vice president of Park Communications, Inc. William Price is Kenan Professor of History at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Summary

Offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. This anthology draws on a wealth of sources - histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines - to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jack Claiborne (Editor), William Price (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.1993
• EAN: 9780807844342
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4434-2
• No. of pages: 390
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Chapel Hill Books; Chapel Hill Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous