The North Carolina Atlas: Portrait for a New Century
edited by Douglas M. Orr Jr. and Alfred W. Stuart

$45.00 hardcover

   

FEATURES

-Over 300 full-color maps and charts
-50 color photographs
-The best available and most up-to-date information presented by the foremost authorities on population, environment, economy, culture, and politics
-Short essays by influential North Carolinians, including Hugh L. McColl, Sarah Park Rankin, Doris Betts, Tom Wicker, Charles Kuralt, and Raymond Gavins
-Foreword by Governor James B. Hunt Jr.

ESSAYS INCLUDED IN THE NORTH CAROLINA ATLAS

Carolina Memories, Charles Kuralt
Earthquakes in North Carolina, Andy R. Bobyarchick
Hoi Toide: The Ocracoke Brogue, Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
Freedom's Spring Stirring: When Jackie Robinson Came to Town, Douglas M. Orr Jr.
A Changing Racial Climate, Raymond Gavins
A Reminiscence of My Old Home Town, Tom Wicker
Urban Terminology, Gerald L. Ingalls
The Flue-Cured Tobacco Program in North Carolina, Tom Ross
Aquaculture, Tom Ross
Famous Labor Disputes, Alfred W. Stuart
From Small Town to International Banking, Edward E. Crutchfield
A New Political Climate, James G. Martin Jr.
Observations about Gubernatorial Power, Robert W. Scott
Terms Used in Crime Statistics, Richard C. Lumb
A Pivotal Plan for Higher Education, William Friday
A Literary Renaissance, Doris Betts
Wilmington's Thalian Hall, Sarah Park Rankin
The Swannanoa Gathering, Paige G. Blomgren
Challenges for a New Century, Hugh L. McColl Jr.

Douglas M. Orr Jr. (left) and Alfred W. Stuart (right)

Douglas M. Orr Jr. is president of Warren Wilson College in Asheville. Alfred W. Stuart is professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Together with James W. Clay, they are the editors of North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State, which UNC Press published in 1975.


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