Dominion of memories : Jefferson, Madison, and the decline of Virginia
2007
975.503 D933 2007
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Title
Dominion of memories : Jefferson, Madison, and the decline of Virginia
Published
New York : Basic Books, c2007.
Description
ix, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
975.503 D933 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)80358388
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-288) and index.
Contents: Prologue -- The cult of the soil -- The cankers of indolence and slavery -- "Let us have our own schools" -- Roads, canals, railroads : moving in place -- Deluded citizens clamoring for banks -- The case of Virginia v. John Marshall -- Another constitutional convention -- Tariff wars -- Abolitionists and other enemies -- Epilogue : Jefferson and Virginia, a hundred years later.
L2013M149
Examines the slow decline of Virginia from the premiere state in size, population, and wealth during the founding of the United States to a state whose name had become synonymous with poverty and slavery by the mid-nineteenth century.
Contents: Prologue -- The cult of the soil -- The cankers of indolence and slavery -- "Let us have our own schools" -- Roads, canals, railroads : moving in place -- Deluded citizens clamoring for banks -- The case of Virginia v. John Marshall -- Another constitutional convention -- Tariff wars -- Abolitionists and other enemies -- Epilogue : Jefferson and Virginia, a hundred years later.
L2013M149
Examines the slow decline of Virginia from the premiere state in size, population, and wealth during the founding of the United States to a state whose name had become synonymous with poverty and slavery by the mid-nineteenth century.
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