Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 116 / Number 4
Book reviews
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715
By Paul Kelton
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Reviewed by James D. Rice, SUNY Plattsburgh
Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580–1660
By Cynthia Van Zandt
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon, Gettysburg College
White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
By Colin G. Calloway
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Kevin T. Barksdale, Marshall University
Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia
By Ann Smart Martin
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Frank J. Byrne, State University of New York at Oswego
The Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters
Edited by Edward G. Lengel
New York: Smithsonian Books, 2008
Reviewed by Phillip Hamilton, Christopher Newport University
Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century
By Jewel L. Spangler
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by John A. Ragosta, author of Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty (forthcoming)
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
By Alan Pell Crawford
New York: Random House, 2008
Reviewed by Catherine Kerrison, Villanova University
Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820–1865
By L. Diane Barnes
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008
Reviewed by A. Wilson Greene, Pamplin Historical Park, National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865
By Frank J. Byrne
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006
Reviewed by L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown State University
Virginia at War, 1862
Edited by James I. Robertson, Jr., and William C. Davis
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007
Reviewed by Lisa Laskin, Summer School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War
By Victoria E. Ott
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Susanna Michele Lee, North Carolina State University
Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South
By Rand Dotson
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007
Reviewed by Bruce E. Stewart, Appalachian State University
Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959
Edited by James R. Sweeney
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008
Reviewed by Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University
Legacy: Walter Chrysler Jr., and the Untold Story of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum of Art
By Peggy Earle
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by Thomas Aiello, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Town
Edited by Ann Denkler
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2007
Reviewed by Theodore Carter DeLaney, Washington and Lee University
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