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  • Vignettes of Colonial Virginia

    Remarkable Stories from the Founding of America

    by Brent Tarter ...
    Illuminating stories of colonial life from the dean of Virginia historyHow did ordinary people experience life in the colonial era, from the humdrum happenings of the day-to-day to the extraordinary events still familiar to millions? In his latest book, renowned historian Brent Tarter paints a vibrant, colorful portrait of the Old Dominion in the era before the Revolution, presenting a new ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Virginia's Forgotten Founder

    The World of Robert Carter Nicholas

    by Brent Tarter ...
    The first biography of a neglected but crucial revolutionary figure and a fascinating window into his worldStudy the American Revolution and you might miss the name Robert Carter Nicholas; study Robert Carter Nicholas and you will see the entire revolution. This is the first biography of the Virginia patriot who served in the House of Burgesses and has gone down in history as an opponent of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A Saga of the New South

    Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia

    by Brent Tarter ...
    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 ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Virginians and Their Histories

    by Brent Tarter ...
    Histories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an understanding of the commonwealth. With Virginians and Their Histories, Brent Tarter presents a fresh, new interpretive narrative that incorporates the experiences of all residents of Virginia from the earliest times to the first decades of the twenty ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Constitutional History of Virginia

    by Brent Tarter ...
    Series Book 6 - Southern Legal Studies
    This is the only modern comprehensive constitutional history of any state, and as a history of Virgina, it is one of the oldest and most complex. Virginia’s state legislature is the Virginia General Assembly, which was established in July 1619, making it the oldest current lawmaking body in North America. Brent Tarter’s Constitutional History of Virginia covers over three hundred years of Virginia ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Gerrymanders

    How Redistricting Has Protected Slavery, White Supremacy, and Partisan Minorities in Virginia

    by Brent Tarter ...
    Many are aware that gerrymandering exists and suspect it plays a role in our elections, but its history goes far deeper, and its impacts are far greater, than most realize. In his latest book, Brent Tarter focuses on Virginia’s long history of gerrymandering to uncover its immense influence on the state’s politics and to provide perspective on how the practice impacts politics nationally.Offering ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Grandees of Government

    The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia

    by Brent Tarter ...
    From the formation of the first institutions of representative government and the use of slavery in the seventeenth century through the American Revolution, the Civil War, the civil rights movement, and into the twenty-first century, Virginia’s history has been marked by obstacles to democratic change. In The Grandees of Government, Brent Tarter offers an extended commentary based in primary ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Daydreams and Nightmares

    A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War

    by Brent Tarter ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, however, historian Brent Tarter shares the story of one Virginia family who found themselves in the middle of the secession debate and saw their world torn apart as the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Campaign for Women Suffrage in Virginia

    by Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne, Barbara C. Batson ...
    In 1920, Virginia's General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia's suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment, women gained voting rights across the nation. Virginia suffragists were a part of that victory, although their role has been nearly forgotten. They marched in parades, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Justice for Ourselves

    Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

    by John G. Deal, Brent Tarter, Professor Marienne E. Julienne ...
    Series series The American South Series
    A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery“Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery,” wrote Frederick Douglass in 1862, “but only begins.” The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment altered a legal status; to make freedom a reality represented a different challenge altogether.Justice for Ourselves tells ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • "Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia

    Edited by Warren M. Billings, Brent Tarter ...
    Series series Early American Histories
    Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and the intellectual history of early America. It also addresses essential questions of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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    America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Kate Masur ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryFinalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeWinner of the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize • Winner of the John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History • Winner of the American Society for Legal History's John Phillip Reid Book AwardOne of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021A ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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