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9781933202211 Academic Inspection Copy

Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861

  • ISBN-13: 9781933202211
  • Publisher: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Charles H. Ambler
  • Price: AUD $80.99
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  • Local release date: 05/06/2008
  • Format: Paperback (197.00mm X 128.00mm) 444 pages Weight: 333g
  • Categories: General & world history [HBG]
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This 1910 study of sectionalism in Virginia illustrates how the east and west of Virginia were destined to separate into two states. Barbara Rasmussen, professor of Public History and Director of Cultural Resource Management at West Virginia University writes a new introduction to Sectionalism in Virginia, setting Ambler's classic grand achievement into the context of its production by creating an historical process for studying West Virginia history.
Charles H. Ambler was born in Ohio on August 12, 1876. Throughout his life he lived in Pleasants County, West Virginia, USA where he was sheriff from 1900 to 1901. He also lived in Ashland, Virginia, and Morgantown, West Virginia. While living in Morgantown, Ambler was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1951 to 1954. He was also a member of the Freemasons, Maccabees, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu, and Tau Kappa Alpha.
From the beginning, the work was recognized as an important achievement in American historiography: "This book treats Virginia history from 1776 to 1861 and, though it professes only to review those matters which entered into or bore upon the long sectional quarrel between the eastern and the western parts of the state, taken altogether, it is the best history of the Old Dominion since 1776 we have..." -- William E. Dodd
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