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hardcover. Intensely autobiographical novels, "The Captain and the Colonel" and "Two Years - or The Way We Lived Then" are Chesnut's fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the mid-19th century Civil War South. These short, unfinished novels address a range of subjects related to women. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; FC; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920580
- ISBN
- 9780813920580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.24
€ 55.24
Hardback. In this work, Marshall Foletta contends that by calling for a new American literature in their journal, "The North American Review", the second-generation Federalists helped American readers break free from imported neo-classical standards, thus paving the way for the American Renaissance. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920597
- ISBN
- 9780813920597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.36
€ 74.36
Paperback. An account of the successful adaptation of slavery to industrial labour and freedom in Richmond, Virginia between 1782 and 1865. The book demonstrates how industrial employment allowed blacks to carve out a degree of autonomy and accelerate slavery's demise. Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920993
- ISBN
- 9780813920993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.56
€ 31.56
Hardback. In the five-month period covered by this volume of the "Secretary of States Series", Madison and Jefferson work jointly to acquire final possession of, and establish a preliminary government for, the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of May 1803. Num Pages: 720 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921204
- ISBN
- 9780813921204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.40
€ 128.40
hardcover. This volume gives an account of contraction in household authority and the effects these changes had upon the governmental system. It argues that the disintegration of household powers during the mid 19th century is much more central to the modernization of the period than industrialization. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921259
- ISBN
- 9780813921259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.97
€ 85.97
Hardback. Walker Rumble follows the trail of the Swifts, a group of colourful compositors who became famous by winning typesetting races. Tellingly, at the same time that the most celebrated contests were taking place, technological and cultural forces were threatening the Swifts's way of life. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBT; KNTR; TBX; TDPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921617
- ISBN
- 9780813921617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.45
€ 46.45
paperback. Between 1868 and 1935, four killings in the state of Virginia attracted extensive press coverage and led to the press itself playing a role in the construction of the killings and the reporting of them. This text explores the interplay of national media and culture with Southern law and values. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFD; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813922089
- ISBN
- 9780813922089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.64
€ 34.64
Journal of a Residence in Chile during the Year 1822, and a Voyage fro...
Graham, Maria. Ed(S): Hayward, Jennifer (Asso...
Paperback. In 1821, Maria Dundas Graham sailed for South America. After her husband, the ship's captain, died en route, the newly widowed Maria Graham resisted all efforts to hustle her back to England. She rented a cottage in Valparaiso and spent nine months travelling in Chile. This is her journal. Editor(s): Hayward, Jennifer (Associate Professor of English, College of Wooster, USA). Num Pages: 432 pages, 15 b&w illustrations, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1KLSH; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922164
- ISBN
- 9780813922164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.74
€ 38.74
The Papers of James Madison: 10 July 1812-7 February 1813
Madison, James. Ed(S): Stagg, J C A; King, Ma...
hardcover. Editor(s): Stagg, J C a; King, Martha J; Barber, Ellen J; Colony, Anne Mandeville; Kreider, Angela; Spangler, Jewel L. Series: Papers of James Madison. Presidential. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1202.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922584
- ISBN
- 9780813922584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.02
€ 127.02
Hardback. Once revered as one of the finest officers in the US Navy, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont is, if remembered at all, criticized for resisting technological advancement and for half-heartedly leading the disastrous all-ironclad Union naval attack on Charleston. Kevin J. Weddle challenges this reduction. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16ill.4M. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923321
- ISBN
- 9780813923321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.23
€ 54.23
hardcover. Focusing on Fannin and Lumpkin counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains along Georgia's northern border, this work argues for a localized, idiosyncratic understanding of the Civil war. This book reveals that, for many participants, this war was fought less for abstract ideological causes than for reasons tied to home, family, friends, and community. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813925493
- ISBN
- 9780813925493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.85
€ 79.85
Hardback. Offers a portrait of Virginia's wartime economic, political, and social institutions. This work includes essays that examine such concerns as the war's effect on slavery in the state, the wartime intersection of race and religion, and the development of Confederate social networks. Editor(s): Ayers, Edward L.; Gallagher, Gary W.; Torget, Andrew J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 maps & graphs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925523
- ISBN
- 9780813925523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.16
€ 55.16
Hardback. Few wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. On the eve of the Civil War, the city elected a conservative, pro-Union approach to the sectional crisis. This book provides a study of this city, looking at both Petersburg's civilian experience and the city's place in Confederate military strategy and administration. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925707
- ISBN
- 9780813925707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.32
€ 40.99
€ 35.32
hardcover. Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925783
- ISBN
- 9780813925783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.84
€ 73.84
Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of Am...
. Ed(S): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey ...
paperback. An obscure undertaking in its time, the Lewis and Clark expedition grew in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. This book presents an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to ours. It contains essays that look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition. Editor(s): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925950
- ISBN
- 9780813925950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.78
€ 31.78
The Papers of James Madison: 1 September 1804 - 31 January 1805 with a...
Madison, James. Ed(S): Hackett, Mary A.; Stag...
hardcover. Covers five months that encompass the end of Jefferson's first administration and point toward his second. Editor(s): Hackett, Mary A.; Stagg, J. C. A.; Colony, Anne Mandeville; Cross, Jeanne Kerr; Johnson, Mary Parke; Kreider, Angela; Perry, Wendy Ellen. Num Pages: 634 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 634
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926353
- ISBN
- 9780813926353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.54
€ 124.54
Hardback. Chronicles the agricultural, industrial, and commercial activities of four generations of the Tayloe family of Northern Virginia, revealing the complexity in the southern business culture of early America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; KCZ; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926377
- ISBN
- 9780813926377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.45
€ 54.45
paperback. To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. This book takes into the Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time. Num Pages: 376 pages, 48 b&w illustrations & 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927329
- ISBN
- 9780813927329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.57
€ 18.57
Hardback. Offers an interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the complex, biracial history of the Baptist movement in southeastern Virginia. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HRCC92. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927381
- ISBN
- 9780813927381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.17
€ 65.17
Paperback. Drawing upon an archive of manuscript materials, this book illustrates how two generations of a colorful and influential family adapted to social upheaval. It reveals the process by which the world of Washington and Jefferson evolved into the antebellum society of Edmund Ruffin and Thomas Dew. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927442
- ISBN
- 9780813927442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.02
€ 32.02
hardcover. Assesses the short- and long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families of different classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia. This title explores the consequences of the war for over three thousand Confederate soldiers and their families. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 map, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813928135
- ISBN
- 9780813928135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.54
€ 59.54
Paperback. Collects twenty essays that explore the Virginia story in the Civil War era. This title examines Robert E Lee and the issues confronting his men, such as soldier morale and religious conversion. It emphasizes the wartime home front - in some cases reexamining its connection with the battlefront - or explore questions of gender, race, or religion. Editor(s): Wallenstein, Peter; Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928289
- ISBN
- 9780813928289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.55
€ 36.55
Hardback. Based on the workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville sponsored by Monticello's International Center for Jefferson Studies, this title examines a question of longstanding interest to American historians: the nature of the relationship between America and Europe during the Age of Revolution. Editor(s): Sadosky, Leonard J.; Nicolaisen, Peter; Onuf, Peter S.; O'Shaughnessy, Andrew. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928470
- ISBN
- 9780813928470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.09
€ 87.09
The Papers of James Madison: 1 February-30 June 1805
. Ed(S): Hackett, Mary A.; Stagg, J. C. A.; C...
hardcover. Editor(s): Hackett, Mary A.; Stagg, J. C. A.; Colony, Anne Mandeville; Harbury, Katharine F.; Johnson, Mary Parke. Series: Secretary of State S. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 975.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930985
- ISBN
- 9780813930985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.57
€ 125.57