1989 by (The University of North Carolina Press?) ISBN 0-8078-1846-1 (cloth) ISBN 0-8078-1850-X (pbk.)-->CONTENTSPreface1. Natural Features and Native Peoples 2. Exploration and Early Settlement 3. A Proprietary Colony, 1663-1729 4. Royal Government 5. Colonial Society and Culture, 1729-1776 6. Colonial Economy: Agriculture, Trade, and Communication 7.

Sectional Controversies in the Colony 8. A Decade of Dispute 9. Attaining Independence 10. A Free State 11. A Jeffersonian Republic 12. A State Asleep 13. The Vision of Archibald D. Murphey 14.

The Constitutional Convention of 1835 15. The Whig Era, 1835-1850 16. A Change in Midstream 17. The Economy and Antebellum Society 18. The Coming of the Civil War 19. The Civil War 20. A State Made New 21. A Fresh Start 22.

A Time of Readjustment 23. Great Anticipations for the Twentieth Century 24. Down But Not Out: The State Survives the Great Depression 25. New Points to Ponder in a Restless World 26. A New Face for the State 27. The State Looks to the Future AppendixesFurther ReadingIndex.