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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 109 / Number 2

Book reviews:

Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776
By Jon Butler
Reviewed by: Kim M. Gruenwald, p.219

The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II
Edited by Kevin Berland, Jan Kirsten Gilliam, and Kenneth A. Lockridge
Reviewed by Susan Miller, p.220

The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire
By Francis Jennings
Reviewed by Edward Countryman, p.221

Inventing Congress: Origins and Establishment of the First Federal Congress
Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon
Reviewed by Richard E. Ellis, p.222

After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900
Edited by Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra
Reviewed by Gabrielle M, Lanier, p.223

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
By Sally E. Hadden
Reviewed by Loren Schweninger, p.224

Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatment of the Southampton Slave Insurrection
By Mary Kemp Davis
Reviewed by Patrick H. Breen, p.226

American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond
By Gregg D. Kimball
Reviewed by Lisa Tolbert, p.227

A House Dividing: EconomicDevelopment in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War
By Johm Majewski
Reviewed by Kenneth E. Koons, p.229

Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front
Edited by Daniel E. Sutherland
Reviewed by Rand Dotson, p.230

War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
By David A. Mindell
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Trask, p.232

A Hundred Days to Richmond: Ohio's "Hundred Days" Men in the Civil War
Edited and with an introduction by Jim Leeke
Reviewed by Timothy D. Johnson, p.233

California Sabers: The 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil War
By James McLean
Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse, p.234

Jumpin 'Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights
Edited by Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon
Reviewed by Glenn Feldman, p.235

Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s
By Pete Daniel
Reviewed by Michael T. Bertrand, p.237



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