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Book Synopsis Preserving the Old Dominion by : James Michael Lindgren
Download or read book Preserving the Old Dominion written by James Michael Lindgren and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889 tradition-minded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), the first state preservation organization in the United States. And where better? After all, who else could so readily claim both colonial and Confederate heritage, both Jamestown and the White House of the Confederacy? In Preserving the Old Dominion cultural historian James Lindgren shows how the preservation movement strove to rebuild a revered past upon the foundations of its historic structures. While vividly capturing entertaining incidents - white-gloved pilgrimages, a Richmond costume ball, even a search for a Jamestown Rock to set back those arriviste New Englanders - and introducing battling (often with each other) preservationists, Lindgren also explores the serious consequences of these sometimes amusing efforts. He shows how the reinvention of the past shaped contemporary Virginia and the South. In a very real sense the battle between North and South was replayed at the end of the nineteenth century in a contest to control the nation's past. The AVPA's significance lies not only in the fact that it played a major role in the resurgence of conservatism in the late nineteenth-century South, but that it fits into a larger American picture where tradition-minded Americans tapped their history - whether imagined or real - to shape their identity. Preserving the Old Dominion incorporates history, anthropology, architecture, archaeology, religion, and politics; it will be of interest to historians in all fields as well as women's studies scholars.
Book Synopsis Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912 by : Rand Dotson
Download or read book Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912 written by Rand Dotson and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of a city that for a brief period was widely hailed as a regional model for industrialization as well as the ultimate success symbol for the rehabilitation of the former Confederacy. In a region where modernization seemed to move at a glacial pace, those looking for signs of what they were triumphantly calling the "New South" pointed to Roanoke. No southern city grew faster than Roanoke did during the 1880s. A hardscrabble Appalachian tobacco depot originally known by the uninspiring name of Big Lick, it became a veritable boomtown by the end of the decade as a steady stream of investment and skilled manpower flowed in from north of the Mason-Dixon line. The first scholarly treatment of Roanoke's early history, the book explains how native businessmen convinced a northern investment company to make their small town a major railroad hub. It then describes how that venture initially paid off, as the influx of thousands of people from the North and the surrounding Virginia countryside helped make Roanoke - presumptuously christened the "Magic City" by New South proponents - the state's third-largest city by the turn of the century. Rand Dotson recounts what life was like for Roanoke's wealthy elites, working poor, and African American inhabitants. He also explores the social conflicts that ultimately erupted as a result of well-intended 3reforms4 initiated by city leaders. Dotson illustrates how residents mediated the catastrophic Depression of 1893 and that year's infamous Roanoke Riot, which exposed the faȧde masking the city's racial tensions, inadequate physical infrastructure, and provincial mentality of the local populace. Dotson then details the subsequent attempts of business boosters and progressive reformers to attract the additional investments needed to put their city back on track. Ultimately, Dotson explains, Roanoke's early struggles stemmed from its business leaders' unwavering belief that economic development would serve as the panacea for all of the town's problems.
Book Synopsis Lost Virginia by : Bryan Clark Green
Download or read book Lost Virginia written by Bryan Clark Green and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literally hundreds of Virginia buildings of architectural or historical interest have vanished. Most were demolished or burned, while others were abandoned as populations and needs shifted. The consequence is that important models of architectural accomplishment and key symbols of human aspiration and achievement have disappeared and are largely forgotten. Lost Virginia is an effort to document and reconstruct the appearance of Virginia architecture in earlier times, when the nation's destiny and history were intimately tied to the Old Dominion's landscape and buildings. It seeks to recover, at least on paper, an impression of our lost architectural heritage. Organized into categories of domestic, civic, religious, and commercial buildings, the more than three hundred vanished structures illustrated within include slave pens in Alexandria, George Washington's singular sixteen-sided barn, a one-room schoolhouse in Greene County, and the 18th-century Valley homes--long mistaken for forts--of German-speaking settlers. Soldiers in both blue and gray tramped by the now-lost Rockingham County courthouse, and a cathedral-like federal post office in Roanoke joins Rockbridge County's fantastic Alleghany Hotel on the list of exceptional but short-lived buildings. Also documented are creations like Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Company Pavilion, destroyed just months after it had been erected for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exhibition, and the Thomas Jefferson-designed Barboursville in Orange County. --jacket.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Small Business Problems in Smaller Towns and Urban Areas Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :636 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis SBA Lease Guarantee (Old Dominion Sugar Corp.) by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Small Business Problems in Smaller Towns and Urban Areas
Download or read book SBA Lease Guarantee (Old Dominion Sugar Corp.) written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Small Business Problems in Smaller Towns and Urban Areas and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :636 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (36 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1322 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Origins of the New South, 1877--1913 by : C. Vann Woodward
Download or read book Origins of the New South, 1877--1913 written by C. Vann Woodward and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1981-08 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Book Synopsis Freedpeople in the Tobacco South by : Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Download or read book Freedpeople in the Tobacco South written by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom's younger generation who deserted the region's farms and plantations for Virginia's towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general.
Book Synopsis Statutes of the United States of America Passed at the ... Session of the ... Congress by : United States
Download or read book Statutes of the United States of America Passed at the ... Session of the ... Congress written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Washington & Old Dominion Railroad by : David A. Guillaudeu
Download or read book Washington & Old Dominion Railroad written by David A. Guillaudeu and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the contribution and history of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad through pictures from the earliest days of building and development. The Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad laid track from Alexandria through Fairfax County and into Loudoun County towards the coalfields of West Virginia. In 1900, the Southern Railway, which had taken over the line, extended the railroad into Bluemont on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Washington & Old Dominion Railway leased the Southern Railway's line in 1912, went into receivership in 1932, and was reorganized into the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad in 1935. The employees excavated the roadbed by hand, built stations and electric locomotives, reconfigured passenger cars, replaced diesel motors, and rebuilt bridges. Eventually, public roads and a lack of shipping and receiving industries forced the railroad into abandonment. Through old photographs, Washington & Old Dominion Railroad explores the efforts that went into building, operating, and maintaining the railroad whose right-of-way has now become the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority's Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park.
Book Synopsis "Origins of the New South" Fifty Years Later by : John B. Boles
Download or read book "Origins of the New South" Fifty Years Later written by John B. Boles and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoughtful, sophisticated book, John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson piece together the intricate story of historian C. Vann Woodward’s 1951 masterpiece, Origins of the New South, 1877–1913, published as Volume IX of LSU Press’s venerable series A History of the South. Sixteen reviews and articles by prominent southern historians of the past fifty years here offer close consideration of the creation, reception, and enduring influence of that classic work of history. It is rare for an academic book to dominate its field half a century later as Woodward’s Origins does southern history. Although its explanations are not accepted by all, the volume remains the starting point for every work examining the South in the era between Reconstruction and World War I. In writing Origins, Woodward deliberately set out to subvert much of the historical orthodoxy he had been taught during the 1930s, and he expected to be lambasted. But the revisionist movement was already afoot among white southern historians by 1951 and the book was hailed. Woodward’s work had an enormous interpretative impact on the historical academy and encapsulated the new trend of historiography of the American South, an approach that guided both black and white scholars through the civil rights movement and beyond. This easily accessible collection comprises four reviews of Origins from 1952 to 1978; “Origin of Origins,” a chapter from Woodward’s 1986 book Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History that explains and reconsiders the context in which Origins was written; five articles from a fiftieth anniversary retrospective symposium on Origins; and three commentaries presented at the symposium and here published for the first time. A combination of trenchant commentary and recent reflections on Woodward’s seminal study along with insight into Woodward as a teacher and scholar, Fifty Years Later in effect traces the creation and development of the modern field of southern history.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :624 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis SBA Lease Gaurantee (Old Dominion Sugar Corp.), Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Small Business Problems in Smaller Towns and Urban Areas of ... , 91-2, Pursuant to H. Res. 66 ... , Feb. 19 and 25, 1970 by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
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Book Synopsis Southern Life in Southern Literature by : Maurice Garland Fulton
Download or read book Southern Life in Southern Literature written by Maurice Garland Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Statutes at Large of the United States by : United States
Download or read book The Statutes at Large of the United States written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statutes at Large is the official annual compilation of public and private laws printed by the GPO. Laws are arranged by order of passage.
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Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :690 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Street-car Fares in the District of Columbia by : United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
Download or read book Street-car Fares in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
