
Inside Alabama
A Personal History of My State
Harvey Jackson(Author)
The University of Alabama Press
Will be published approx. on 30. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-8173-5068-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapologetically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for its colorful past, told by one of the state's most noted historians and educators, whose family came to the territory before statehood. A native and resident Alabamian, Harvey Jackson has spent a lifetime discovering and trying to understand his state. Expressing deep love for its people and culture, he is no less critical of its shortcomings. Inside Alabama, as the title implies, gives Jackson's insider's perspective on the events and conditions that shaped modern-day Alabama. With humor and candor, he explores the state's cultural, political, and economic development from prehistoric times to the dawning of the new millennium. Mound-builders, Hernando de Soto, William Bartram, Red Sticks, Andy Jackson, Bourbon Democrats, suffragettes, New Dealers, Hugo Black, Martin Luther King Jr., George Wallace, Rosa Parks - all play colorful parts in this popular history.
By focusing on state politics as the most accessible and tangible expression of these shaping forces, Jackson organizes the fourteen chapters chronologically, artfully explaining why the past is so important today.
By focusing on state politics as the most accessible and tangible expression of these shaping forces, Jackson organizes the fourteen chapters chronologically, artfully explaining why the past is so important today.
Reviews / Votes
"Honest and entertaining; Jackson's idiosyncratic voice sets just the right tone for the general reader. Here is one scholar who knows how to tell a good story, and readers will appreciate it." - Robert J. Jakeman, Auburn University, editor of The Alabama Review"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-5068-0 (9780817350680)
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E-Book
07/2008
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€36.99
Available for download
Person
Harvey H. Jackson III is Professor and Chair of History and Foreign Languages at Jacksonville State University. He is author of several books, including Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama and Putting "Loafing Streams" to Work: The Building of Lay, Mitchell, Martin, and Jordan Dams, 1910-1929.