Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 117 / Number 2
Book reviews
The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660
By Alison Games
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Warren M. Billings, University of New Orleans
The Political Philosophy of George Washington
By Jeffry H. Morrison
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2009
Reviewed by Peter R. Henriques, George Mason University
Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument
By Seth C. Bruggeman
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008
Reviewed by James M. Lindgren, SUNY, Plattsburgh
I am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing that Shocked a New Nation
Bruce Chadwick
Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2009
Reviewed by Steve Belko, University of West Florida
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
By Charles F. Irons
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Reviewed by Andrew Lee Feight, Shawnee State University
Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740–1840
By Randolph Ferguson Scully
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by Charles F. Irons, Elon University
Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester
By Gary Ecelbarger
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008
Reviewed by Jonathan M. Berkey, Concord University
Virginia at War, 1863
Edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008
Reviewed by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, University of North Florida
The Life and Times of John Brown Baldwin, 1820–1873
By John R. Hildebrand
Staunton, Va.: Lot’s Wife Publishing, 2008
Reviewed by Kathryn Shively Meier, doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia
The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South
By Michael Ayers Trotti
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Reviewed by Richard F. Hamm, SUNY, Albany
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America’s Neutrality, 1914–1917
By Robert W. Tucker
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007
Reviewed by Edward G. Lengel, University of Virginia
Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd
By Lisle Rose
University of Missouri Press, 2008
Reviewed by Robert N. Matuozzi, Washington State University
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