Dominion of Memories Jefferson, Madison and the Decline of Virginia

Name: Dominion of Memories Jefferson, Madison and the Decline of Virginia
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ISBN: 9780465003563

ISBN-10: 0465003567

ISBN-13: 9780465003563

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Authors: Susan Dunn

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For a Time the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Marshall--each came from the state. For thirty-two of the first thirty-six years of the existence of the American republic, a Virginian held the office of President. And yet by the middle of the nineteenth century, Virginia was little more than a byword for slavery, provincialism, and poverty. What happened? In Dominion of Memories, historian Susan Dunn chronicles the precipitous decline of the nation's most promising state. While the North rapidly industrialized and democratized, Virginia lay captive to a firmly entrenched political elite that turned its back on the accelerating modern world.…

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List price: $24.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 3/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Susan Dunn is a professor of French literature and the history of ideas at Williams College. She is the author most recently of The Death of Louis XIV: Regicide & the French political Imagination. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.



Prologue



The Cult of the Soil



The Cankers of Indolence and Slavery



"Let Us Have Our Own Schools"



Roads, Canals, Railroads: Moving in Place



Deluded Citizens Clamoring for Banks



The Case of Virginia v. John Marshall



Another Constitutional Convention



Tariff Wars



Abolitionists and Other Enemies


Epilogue: Jefferson and Virginia, a Hundred Years Later


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index