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This place of promise : a historian's perspective on 200 years of Missouri history / Gary R. Kremer.
"This book highlights the ways in which the forces of history have shaped the lives of Missouri's residents, for good and bad, over the course of 200 years of statehood. Among the key elements of the book is the centrality of race to the Missouri experience, the continuing struggle over th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
2021.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : my Missouri
- Coming to Missouri : Missouri and Missourians on the eve of statehood
- Missourians' struggle for statehood
- Settlement and civilization in post-frontier Missouri
- Turbulence in Civil War Missouri
- Post-Civil War Missouri : an age of Reconstruction and railroads, 1865-1900
- Missouri in the new century : urbanizing Missouri, 1900-1930
- Missouri in crisis : the Great Depression and World War II
- Hope and change in post-World War II Missouri, 1945-1969
- Suburban growth and rural decline : Missouri in the late twentieth century, 1970-2000
- The twenty-first century : challenges in the new millennium
- Epilogue : Missouri : land of promise.