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Author : Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:694990033
Author : Peter Wallenstein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700619948
As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation’s early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the “cradle of America.” Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. The second edition is updated with new material throughout, including a new chapter on Virginia and world affairs from the Korean War through 9/11 and beyond, and, an expanded bibliography. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other’s visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia’s leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state’s dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation’s evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Carter G. Woodson, Patsy Cline, and L. Douglas Wilder. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia’s history.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107057777
This History explores the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown to the twenty-first century.
Author : Kathleen M. Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838297
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption. Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia.
Author : Robert Beverley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469607955
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Virginia
ISBN : MINN:31951D00640552M
Author : Virginius Dabney
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0813934303
This book chronicles the growth of this historic community over nearly four centuries from its founding to its most recent urban and suburban developments.
Author : Carol Montgomery 1879-1941 Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371723788
Author : Royall Bascom Smithey
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348092884
History of Virginia is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Samuel Kercheval,Charles James Faulkner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Indian captivities
ISBN : UVA:X000504059
Author : Charles A. Mills
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614230564
Had General George Washington lived anywhere other than Mount Vernon, Virginia, Washington, D.C., might not exist. In this exciting collection of hidden tales from Northern Virginia, author Charles Mills highlights the important role that this region played in our nation's history from colonial to modern times. Read about the Rebel blockade of the Potomac River, the imprisonment of German POWs at super-secret Fort Hunt during World War II and the building of the Pentagon on the same site and in the same configuration as Civil War, era Fort Runyon. Meet Annandale's "bunny man, "? who inspired one of the country's wildest and scariest urban legends; learn about the slaves in Alexandria's notorious slave pens; and witness suffragists being dragged from the White House lawn and imprisoned in the Occoquan workhouse. Mills masterfully relates these and other colorful tales of the people and events that left their imprints on Northern Virginia and the nation.
Author : Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813919027
The definitive treatment of Mr. Jefferson's favorite institution, with an updated section on entering the twenty-first century. In the nearly two centuries since the first building's completion in Thomas Jefferson's academical village, programs and facilities at the University of Virginia have been continually expanded and updated. The four years since the first publication of The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History have been no exception to that tradition: science and technology, athletics, public service, international programs, business, and the arts are just a few of the current growth areas at Mr. Jefferson's university. When the Board of Visitors approved a new master plan for growth and development in 1999--and the capital campaign of 2000 supported its ambitious outline with a $1.4 billion purse--they set in motion massive upgrades at the university. A South Lawn complex and "groundswalk" to reconnect the sprawling areas of the university, a new special collections library, expanded.
Author : Tbd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 046141192X
Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838839
In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that included Africans, Native Americans, and other Europeans. With contributions from both prominent and rising scholars, this volume offers far-ranging and compelling studies of peoples, texts, places, and conditions that influenced the making of New World societies. As Jamestown marks its four-hundredth anniversary, this collection provides provocative material for teaching and launching new research. Contributors: Philip P. Boucher, University of Alabama, Huntsville Peter Cook, Nipissing University J. H. Elliott, University of Oxford Andrew Fitzmaurice, University of Sydney Joseph Hall, Bates College Linda Heywood, Boston University James Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation E. Ann McDougall, University of Alberta Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University David Northrup, Boston College Marcy Norton, The George Washington University James D. Rice, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania David Harris Sacks, Reed College Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison John Thornton, Boston University
Author : Marshall Wingfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0788409387
In this methodically organized and profusely illustrated volume, Marshall Wingfield recounts the history of Virginia's twenty-ninth county and its most prominent residents, from the founding of the county in 1727 to the First World War. Contains numerous