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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 108 / Number 3

Book reviews:

Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's Founding
By Alf J. Mapp, Jr.
Reviewed by Martin H. Quitt, p.304

Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1865
By Michael Leroy Oberg Reviewed by Martin H. Quitt, p.307

The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM
Edited by David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein
Reviewed by Philip J. Schwarz, p.308

Slaves and Slaveowners in Bermuda, 1616-1782
By Virginia Bernhard
Reviewed by Alison Games, p.309

Forced Founders: Indians Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
By Woody Holton
Reviewed by Terri L. Snyder, p.310

A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court
By David Robarge
Reviewed by David Thomas Konig, p.312

Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
By Peter S. Onuf
Reviewed by William C. diGiacomantonio, p.313

Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans
By Anthony F. C. Wallace
Reviewed by J. Jefferson Looney, p.315

Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
By Joyce Appleby
Reviewed by James H. Read, p.316

Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
By David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly
Reviewed by Nancy L. Rhoden, p.318

Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.
Edited by Charles F. Bryan, Jr. and Nelson D. Lankford
Reviewed by Daniel E. Sutherland, p.319

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
By Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Reviewed by Timothy S. Huebner (p.320

Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle
By Stephen Cushman
Reviewed by William Harris Bragg, p.322

Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Applachia, 1880-1930
By Sandra Lee Barney
Reviewed by Ted Olson, p.323

Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers
By Nancy C. Parrish
Reviewed by Mary Lynn Bayliss, p.324



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