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Attribution
Susan Dunn
Publication Details
Book, Basic Books, 2007
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- Table of contents only
Description
For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. This fresh and penetrating examination of Virginia’s struggle to defend its sovereignty, traditions, and unique identity encapsulates, in the history of a single state, the struggle of an entire nation drifting inexorably toward Civil War. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Jefferson, Thomas, · 1743-1826 · Political and social views · Madison, James, · 1751-1836 · Elite (Social sciences) · Virginia · History · 18th century · 19th century · Regionalism · 1775-1865 · Politics and government · Social conditions · Economic conditions · Dunn, Susan, 1945-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F230 .D86 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F230 .D86 2007	AVAILABLE

Attribution
Rhys Isaac
Publication Details
Book, Oxford University Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
Description
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. Not only had Landon’s king betrayed his subjects, but Landon’s own household betrayed him: his son showed insolent defiance, his daughter Judith eloped with a forbidden suitor, all of his slaves conspired constantly, and eight of them made an armed exodus to freedom. Moreover, in this presentation of Landon Carter’s passionate narratives, the diarist becomes an arresting new character in the world’s literature, a figure of Shakespearean proportions, the Lear of his own tragic kingdom. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Carter, Landon, · 1710-1778 · Diaries · Sabine Hall (Richmond County, Va.) · Plantation owners · Virginia · Biography · Gentry · Social life and customs · 18th century · Plantation life · History · 1775-1783 · Social conditions · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Social aspects · United States · Social aspects · Isaac, Rhys
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(LOWER LEVEL) F229.C32 I83 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F229.C32 I83 2004	AVAILABLE

Attribution
Woody Holton
Publication Details
Book, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999
Description
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Gentry · Virginia · History · 18th century · Social classes · United States · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Causes · Social aspects · Social conditions · Holton, Woody · Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
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(LOWER LEVEL) E210 .H695 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E210 .H695 1999	AVAILABLE