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Myne Owne Groundby T. H. Breen; Stephen Innes
Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 14.00Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations... more...
The Andesby Jason Wilson
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 16.95Introduction 1: The Venezuelan Andes 2: Colombian Andes 3: Ecuadorian Andes 4: Peruvian Andes 5: Bolivian Andes 6: Argentine and Chilean Andes more...
The First Emancipatorby Andrew Levy
Random House 2005; US$ 11.99Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke of a pen. In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declared his intent to set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. How did Carter succeed in the very action that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson claimed they fervently desired but were powerless to effect? And why... more...
Notes on the State of Virginiaby Thomas Jefferson; Frank Shuffelton
Penguin Group Inc. 1998; US$ 12.99Jefferson?s chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom. more...
A Family Ventureby Joan E. Cashin
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 98.00This social history examines the westward migration of US farming families from the southern seaboard in the years before the American Civil War. more...
Nat Turnerby Kenneth S. Greenberg
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 29.95Leader of an important slave rebellion, murderer of unarmed men and women, beacon of freedom, and religious fanatic - the contradictory figure of Nat Turner represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. This biography offers insight into the man, his rebellion, and his time. more...
Jamestown Colonyby FRANK E. GRIZZARD JR.; DANIEL BOYD SMITH
ABC-CLIO 2007; US$ 95.00Four centuries after its founding, Jamestown has become the stuff of movies, legend, and tourism. This important work treats the reality behind the legendsÑPocahontas, John Rolfe, Powhatan, John Smith, and othersÑand puts the stories into a broader context. More than 250 AÐZ entries detail the colonial strategies, military considerations, political realities, and personal privations that went into the creation of the first enduring beachhead in the British effort to colonize the New World.||Based on primary sources and ongoing archaeological work, this book is the most comprehensive look at life in Jamestown. The reader will find detailed scholarship on all the familiar names along with the stories of the lesser known, told in their own words... more...
The Promised Land? The Lives and Voices of Hispanic Immigrants in the New Southby Patricia L. Goerman
Routledge 2006; US$ 70.00Through analysis of interviews with 73 Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a look at the views and circumstances of immigrants. It provides an examination of the migration trend, and argues that important policy changes are needed to benefit and protect both the new arrivals and their wider communities. more...
The Handbook of South American Archaeologyby Helaine Silverman; William Isbell
Springer 2008; US$ 206.00The Handbook of South American Archaeology has been created as a major reference work for archaeologists working in South America, professors and their upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in South American archaeology courses including areal courses (Central Andes, North Andes, tropical lowlands), archaeologists working elsewhere in the world who want to learn about South American prehistory in a single volume. The contributions of this seminal handbook have been commissioned from leading local and global authorities on South America. Authors present the dynamic evolutionary processes of the ancient societies and principal geographical regions of the continent and consider issues such as environmental setting and ecological adaptations,... more...
Virginiaby Inc. Weigl Publishers
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 2008; US$ 10.95Virginia: The Old Dominion State, is a part of the Discover America Series. Virginia celebrates the people and culture with beautiful images and engaging facts as well as describing the history, industry, environment, and sports that make this state unique. more...