Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 115 / Number 1
Book reviews
The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
By Seth Mallios
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006
Reviewed by James Taylor Carson, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution
By Simon Schama
New York: Ecco, 2006
Reviewed by Douglas B. Chambers, University of Southern Mississippi
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
By Shane White and Graham White
Boston: Beacon Press, 2005
Reviewed by William Ferris, University of North Carolina
Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740–1829: An Anthology
Edited by Jeffrey Robert Young
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Richards, Old Dominion University
Experiencing Mount Vernon: Eyewitness Accounts, 1784–1865
Edited by Jean B. Lee
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006
Reviewed by Scott E. Casper, University of Nevada, Reno
War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts
Edited by John Resch and Walter Sargent
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007
Reviewed by John P. Kaminski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army
By Harry M. Ward
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006
Reviewed by Edward G. Lengel, University of Virginia
Drama, Theater, and Identity in the American New Republic
By Jeffrey Richards
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005
Reviewed by Odai Johnson, University of Washington
In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn
By Bryan Clark Green
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, for the Virginia Historical Society, 2006
Reviewed by Gabrielle M. Lanier, James Madison University
Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War
By Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006
Reviewed by James L. Huston, Oklahoma State University
Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863–1913
By Kathleen Ann Clark
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Reviewed by Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
Edited by Harold Holzer and Tim Mulligan
New York: Fordham University Press, 2006
Reviewed by Frank J. Byrne, State University of New York at Oswego
Shared Histories: Transatlantic Letters between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929–1966
Edited by Angela Potter
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006
Reviewed by Mary Lynn Bayliss
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