Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957.

Title Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861 / Charles Henry Ambler
Edition 2nd ed. / with a new introduction by Barbara Rasmussen
Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2008

Copies

Description 1 online resource (lxiv, 366 pages) : maps
Series West Virginia and Appalachia ; 7
West Virginia and Appalachia ; 7.
Contents Front Cover; West Virginia and Appalachia Series Page; Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition; List of Maps; Vote of the Ratification of the Federal Constitution; Vote in the House of Delegates on the Resolutions in 1798; Vote of Virginia's Represntatives on the Tariff Bill of 1828; Presidential Election of 1824; Presidential Election of 1828; Vote on the Constitutional Convention Bill of 1828; Vote by Counties on the Ratification of the Constitution of 1830; Vote of the House of Delegates of 1831-32 on the Expediency of Legislating for the Abolition of Negro Slavery
Vote of Virginia's Representatives on the Tariff of 1832Vote in the House of Delegates of the Course of South Carolina Nullification; Whig and Democratic Strength as Shown by the Membership of the House of Delegates of 1834-35; Presidential Election of 1860; Preface; Introduction; Natural Features; Sectional Differences in the Colony and Political Conditions on the Eve of the Revolution; Revolution, Confederation, and the Constitution, 1776-90; Federalists and Republicans, 1790-1816; The Era of Good Feeling and the Rise of the National Republican Party, 1817-28
The Constitutional Convention of 1829-30Internal Improvements, Negro Slavery, and Nullification, 1829-33; Parties in the Whig Period, 1834-50; The Reform Convention of 1850-51; Sectionalism in Education and the Church, 1830-61; History of Political Parties From 1851 to 1861; Bibliography; General and Local Histories of Virginia; Special Monographs, Articles, and Works; Pamphlets and Speeches; Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters of Contemporaries; Public Documents; Of the United States; Of Virginia; Of West Virginia; Laws of Virginia; Church Histories, Papers, and Monographs on Church History
ManuscriptsMiscellaneous; Newspapers, Magazines, and Periodicals; Files in the State Historical Library at Richmond, Va.; Files in the Office of the Richmond Christian Advocate -- Files in the State Historical Library, Madison, Wis.; Files in the Department of Archives and History, Charleston, WV.; Files in the Office of the Parkersburg Gazette -- Files in the Office of the Pittsburg Christian Advocate -- Index; Back Cover
Summary "West Virginia statehood was long in the making and had its start in politics driven by economic interests, not abolition. Dr. Ambler's 1910 study of sectionalism in Virginia clearly shows how the East and West of Virginia were always destined to separate. His work underpinned state history for more than sixty years until the mid 1960s and 1970s, when the study of the topic expanded to include the full array of social class relations, distribution of resources, and legislated economic realities." "Professor Ambler created a historical process for studying West Virginia history that asked clearer questions and shunned cultural biases. He wrote prolificallly about West Virginia, authoring or editing twenty books and twelve articles for the journal West Virginia History. However, his first work, Sectionalism, remains his best work. It is all the more remarkable because he was a clear-eyed investigator bucking the currents of local color writers who were flooding the markets with damning and incorrect accounts of life in the mountains. Fortunately for generations of West Virginians, Dr. Ambler perserved to discredit them all while handing down to posterity a powerful tool for the study of the birth and the history of the State of West Virginia." -- Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-349) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
Print version record
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Politics and government
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
SUBJECT Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143775
Subject Virginia
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008922136
ISBN 9781935978169
1935978160