Book Reviews

As the journal of record for Virginia History, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography routinely publishes reviews of books on the business and economic history of the state. Listed below are reviews published since 2000.

vol. 117, no. 3
Aaron W. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (pp. 295–97)

vol. 116, no. 4
Ann Smart Martin, Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia (pp. 412–413)
L. Diane Barnes, Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820–1865 (pp. 418–420)
Frank J. Byrne, Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865 (pp. 420–421)
Rand Dotson, Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South (pp. 424–426)

vol. 116, no. 3
Laura Croghan Kamoie, Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860 (pp. 298–300)

vol. 115, no. 4
Deborah R. Weiner, Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History (pp. 594–96)

vol. 115, no. 1
Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf, Nations, Markets, and War (pp. 138–40)

vol. 114, no. 3
Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, eds., Global Perspectives (pp. 413–14)
Tom Lee, The Tennessee and Virginia Tri-Cities (pp. 415–16)

vol. 114, no. 2
Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth (pp. 303–4)

vol. 113, no. 3
Jonathan Daniel Wells, Origins of the Southern Middle Class (pp. 321–23)

vol. 112, no. 1
William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House (pp. 62–64) [View online]
T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution (pp. 69–70)
David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis, The South, the Nation, and the World (pp. 78–79)
Paula Elsey, ed., Stone Ground (pp. 83–84)

vol. 111, no. 4
Robert H. Gudmestad, A Troublesome Commerce (pp. 419–20)
James L. Huston, Calculating the Value (pp. 420–21)

vol. 111, no. 3
John E. Clark, Jr., Railroads in the Civil War (pp. 314–15)

vol. 110, no. 2
John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan, eds., Early Modern Atlantic Economy (pp. 264–65)

vol. 109, no. 4
Charles Royster, Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company (pp. 420–21)

vol. 109, no. 2
John Majewski, A House Dividing (pp. 229–30)

vol. 108, no. 2
Langhorne Gibson, Cabell's Canal (pp. 189–90)
Scott Reynolds Nelson, Iron Confederacies (pp. 194–95)
William G. Thomas, Lawyering for the Railroads (pp. 195–97)