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Saga of the New South
Brent Tarter
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Description for Saga of the New South
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBLL; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. A Saga of the New South delves into the largely untold story of the decades-long postwar controversies over the repayment of that debt. The result is a major reinterpretation of late-nineteenth-century Virginia political history.
The post–Civil War public debt controversy in Virginia reshaped the state’s political landscape twice. First it created the conditions under which the Readjuster Party, a biracial coalition of radical reformers, seized control of the state government in 1879 ... Read more
In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. A Saga of the New South delves into the largely untold story of the decades-long postwar controversies over the repayment of that debt. The result is a major reinterpretation of late-nineteenth-century Virginia political history.
The post–Civil War public debt controversy in Virginia reshaped the state’s political landscape twice. First it created the conditions under which the Readjuster Party, a biracial coalition of radical reformers, seized control of the state government in 1879 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938776
SKU
V9780813938776
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About Brent Tarter
Brent Tarter is a founding editor of the Library of Virginia’s Dictionary of Virginia Biography and the author of Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War (Virginia).
Reviews for Saga of the New South
A Saga of the New South is a remarkable piece of highly original scholarship on a hugely important topic in Virginia history. Brent Tarter's treatment—thorough yet provocative, a vintage Tarter production—goes far to explain the ferocious struggle and historical discontinuity of late-nineteenth-century Virginia politics, a struggle that reverberated from Reconstruction down through the years of Harry F. Byrd to Massive ... Read more