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Cradle of America : a history of Virginia / Peter Wallenstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallenstein, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virginia--History.
- Virginia.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 534 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, revised.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2014]
- Summary:
- The first edition was a History Book Club selection for June 2007 as well as a finalist for the 2008 Library of Virginia Literary Award in Nonfiction. This revised edition incorporates new material throughout and adds a chapter on Virginians and world affairs since World War II. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I 1580s-1760s Between Two Worlds
- 1 Elizabethan Virginia 3
- 2 Jamestown 15
- 3 Land and Labor 33
- 4 The West 51
- Part II 1760-1820s Political Independence and Political Slavery
- 5 Conservative Revolutionaries: Virginians and Independence 69
- 6 Perfecting Independence (I): Power and Policy in Postrevolutionary Virginia 85
- 7 Virginia and a New Union 97
- 8 Mother of Presidents, Mother of States 110
- Part III 1820s-1890s After Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase
- 9 Perfecting Independence (II): Power and Policy in Early National Virginia 133
- 10 Collision of Three Virginias 144
- 11 Race and Slavery, 1820s-1850s 154
- 12 The Compromises of 1850-1851 170
- 13 Virginia's Road to Secession and War 183
- 14 Virginians at War 199
- 15 Reconstructing Virginia-After War and Emancipation 220
- 16 Railroads, Schools, and Readjusters 238
- Part IV 1890s-1940s The Politics of Migration and the Winds of Change
- 17 Southern Progessivism 261
- 18 Alternative Pasts-Preserved, Retrieved, Celebrated 280
- 19 Alternative Futures 296
- 20 Great Depression and New Deal 312
- 21 World War II 325
- Part V 1945-2014 Cold War and Great Society-and after
- 22 Virginia and World Affairs 345
- 23 The Road to Brown v. Board of Education 357
- 24 Massive Resistance to School Desegregation 373
- 25 Power and Policy-The Politics of the 1960s 388
- 26 Towards a New Dominion: Virginia since the 1960s 408
- 27 Retrospectives on Virginia History: Controversy and Commemoration 435.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700619931
- 0700619933
- 9780700619948
- 0700619941
- OCLC:
- 878668026
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