Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 109 / Number 1
Book reviews:
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in North America
By Giles Milton
Reviewed by Edward L. Bond, p.87
Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development
Edited by Richard W. Stephenson and Marianne M. McKee
Reviewed by Warren R. Hofstra, p.88
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
By Allan Kulikoff
Reviewed by James Horn, p.91
James City County: Keystone of The Commonwealth
By Martha W. McCartney
Reviewed by Tommy L. Bogger, p.93
Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State, 1699-1999
Edited by Robert P. Maccubbin
Reviewed by Tommy L. Bogger, p.93
Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing
By Susan Miller
Reviewed by Joyce MacAllister, p.95
Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism
By Ellen Eslinger
Reviewed by Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr., p.96
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800
By Bernard A. Weisberger
Reviewed by John Ferling, p.97
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
By Catherine Allgor
Reviewed by Pamela Tyler, p.99
The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia
By Beth Barton Schweiger
Reviewed by C. David Dalton, p.100
Thomas ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny
By Gene A. Smith
Reviewed by Briton C. Busch, p.102
Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South From Slavery to Segregation
By John C. Inscoe
Reviewed by Randal L. Hall, p.103
Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity
Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Reviewed by Bethany Johnson, p.104
Nature's Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859
By Edmund Ruffin; edited by Jack Temple Kirby
Reviewed by G. Terry Sharrer, p.105
The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days
Edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Reviewed by Stephen W. Sears, p.107
Virginia Tech, Land-Grant University 1872-1997: History of a School, a State, and a Nation
By Peter Wallenstein
Reviewed by Melissa Kean, p.108
The Woman behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Francis Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952
By Bettina Berch
Reviewed by Betsy Fahlman, p.109
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