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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 110 / Number 2

Book reviews:

Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations
Edited by Glenn Feldman
Reviewed by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida

Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History
Edited by John B. Boles
Reviewed by Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph's University

A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776.
By John K. Nelson
Reviewed by Edward L. Bond, Alabama A&M University

The Early Modern Atlantic Economy.
Edited by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan
Reviewed by James D. Rice, State University of New York, Plattsburgh

Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty.
By Helen Bryan
Reviewed by Jean B. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973.
By Joseph A. Fry
Reviewed by Sandra Gioia Treadway, Library of Virginia

The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings.
By John Michael Vlach
Reviewed by Pamela H. Simpson, Washington and Lee University

Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark.
Edited and with an introduction by James J. Holmberg. Foreword by James P. Ronda.
Reviewed by Gene A. Smith, Texas Christian University

Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860.
By Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Reviewed by Patricia C. Click, University of Virginia

In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker.
By Claudia L. Bushman
Reviewed by Ellen Eslinger, DePaul University

Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South.
By Nicolas W. Proctor
Reviewed by David S. Hardin, Longwood University

To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876.
Edited by Kathleen Diffley
Reviewed by E. Susan Barber, College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Jefferson Davis, Confederate President.
By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer
Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey, Georgia College & State University

Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind.
By Paul Christopher Anderson
Reviewed by Lesley J. Gordon, University of Akron

Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage.
By Noah Andre Trudeau
Reviewed by George C. Rable, University of Alabama

An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government.
By William C. Davis
Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth, Texas Christian University

My Dearest Angel: A Virginia Family Chronicle, 1895-1947.
By Katie Letcher Lyle
Reviewed by Mary Lynn Bayliss, Manakin-Sabot, Virginia

Douglas Southall Freeman.
By David E. Johnson
Reviewed by Keith D. Dickson, Joint Forces Staff College

Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel.
By James R. Goff, Jr.
Reviewed by John Dougan, Middle Tennessee State University



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