[SIGNED] [VIRGINIANA] THE GRANDEES OF GOVERNMENT THE ORIGINS AND PERSISTENCE OF UNDEMOCRATIC POLITICS IN VIRGINIA

Brent Tarter

Charlottesville: University of Virginia PRess, 2013.

Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s tan cloth binding; in an unclipped dust jacket; ix, 453 pages including the Index; light wear to the edges of the jacket otherwise a fine copy.~~Inscribed by the author on the half title page.~~From the flap of the jacket “From the formation of the first institutions of representative government and the use of slavery in the seventeenth century through 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.... Tarter offers an extended commentary based in primary sources on how these undemocratic institutions and ideas arose, and how they were both perpetuated and challenged”~.

Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
Item #299153

Price: $75.00