Virginia Reconsidered New Histories of the Old Dominion

Name: Virginia Reconsidered New Histories of the Old Dominion
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ISBN: 9780813922270

ISBN-10: 0813922275

ISBN-13: 9780813922270

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kevin R. Hardwick, Warren R. Hofstra

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Going beyond simply recounting the exploits of famous figures in Virginia's history, this collection of essays probes deep currents of historical change and examines the revealing experiences of lesser known Virginians, covering the state's disparate people and events.

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 3/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Kevin R. Hardwick is Associate Professor of History, James Madison University.

Carole Collier Frick is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.Warren R. Hofstra is the Stewart Bell Professor of History at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


An "Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides": England's First Indian War, 1609-1614



Slavery and Freedom : The American Paradox



The Road



Society, Ideology, and Politics: An Analysis of the Political Culture of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia



"Rebel against Rebel": Enslaved Virginians and the Coming of the American Revolution



"The Blessings of Domestic Society": Thomas Jefferson's Family and the Transformation of American Politics



Race, Memory, and the Death of Robert Berkeley: "A Murder ... of ... Horrible and Savage Barbarity"



Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family



"The Ladies Are Whigs": Lucy Barbour, Henry Clay, and Nineteenth-Century Virginia Politics



White Virginians under Federal Occupation, 1861-1865



Free Speech and the Lost Cause in the Old Dominion



The State Suffrage Campaigns: Virginia as a Case Study



Assuring America's Place in the Sun: Ivey Foreman Lewis and the Teaching of Eugenics at the University of Virginia, 1915-1953



"When Reason Collides with Prejudice": Armistead Lloyd Boothe and the Politics of Moderation



Notes on Contributors


Index