Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 113 / Number 1
Book reviews
The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
By Warren R. Hofstra
Reviewed by A. Glenn Crothers, Indiana University Southeast
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
By Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Reviewed by Kenneth E. Koons, Virginia Military Institute
The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661
By Carla Gardina Pestana
Reviewed by April Lee Hatfield, Texas A&M University
The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717–1742
Edited by Josephine Little Zuppan
Reviewed by Emory G. Evans, University of Maryland, College Park
The Day the Revolution Ended: 19 October 1781
By William H. Hallahan
Reviewed by Phillip Hamilton, Christopher Newport University
Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher
Reviewed by Todd Estes, Oakland University
Lynchburg, Virginia: The First Two Hundred Years, 1786–1986
By James M. Elson
Reviewed by Dorothy T. Potter, Lynchburg College
Now for the Contest: Coastal and Oceanic Naval Operations in the Civil War
By William H. Roberts
Reviewed by Kevin M. Levin, St. Anne's–Belfield School, Charlottesville, Virginia
Blood and Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937
By Sarah E. Gardner
Reviewed by Victoria E. Ott, Birmingham-Southern College
Soldier of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey
Edited by James I. Robertson, Jr.
Reviewed by Paul D. H. Quigley, Iniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (doctoral candidate)
The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865
By Robert R. Mackey
Reviewed by Colin Woodward, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (doctoral candidate)
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South During the First World War
By Jeanette Keith
Reviewed by Rebecca Sharpless, Baylor University Institute for Oral History
All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945–1970
By Alan Scot Willis
Reviewed by Wayne Flynt, Auburn University
The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945–1965
By George Lewis
Reviewed by Don E. Carleton, University of Texas at Austin
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