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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 120 / Number 2

Book reviews

The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution
By Owen Stanwood
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Reviewed by Carla Gardina Pestana, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast
By Matthew Jennings
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011
Reviewed by Steven C. Hahn, St. Olaf College

Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion
Edited by Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011
Reviewed by Kylie A. Horney, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia

Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution
By Michal Jan Rozbicki
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011
Reviewed by Marc L. Harris, Penn State's Altoona College

1812: The Navy's War
By George C. Daughan
New York: Basic Books, 2011
Reviewed by John V. Quarstein, historian for the city of Newport News

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
By Elizabeth Dowling
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Reviewed by David Houpt, a doctoral student in history at the CUNY Graduate Center

The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011
Reviewed by L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown State University

Virginia at War, 1865
Edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012
Reviewed by William B. Kurtz, a doctoral student in history at the University of Virginia

Sustaining Southern Identity: Douglas Southall Freeman and Memory in the Modern South
By Keith D. Dickson
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011
Reviewed by David Johnson, deputy attorney general of Virginia

Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936–1965
By Jason Morgan Ward
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Reviewed by John T. Kneebone, Virginia Commonwealth University

Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial
Edited by Thomas J. Brown
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
Reviewed by Matthew C. Hulbert, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia


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