The Land, the People, and the District in Virginia
Author : Virginia State Soil Conservation Committee
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Soil conservation
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Author : Virginia State Soil Conservation Committee
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Soil conservation
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Author : Fairfax County Public Schools. Division of Curriculum Services
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Page : 165 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Virginia
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Author : Virginia. Division of Industrial Development
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 1964
Category : City planning
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Bounties, Military
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Author : William Osborne Goode
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1859*
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Author : John Mason McCarty
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Virginia
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813943213
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 the first in-depth historical study of gerrymanders in Virginia, Tarter exposes practices going back to nineteenth century and colonial times and explains how they protected land owners’ and slave owners’ interests. The consequences of redistricting and reapportionment in modern Virginia—in effect giving a partisan minority the upper hand in all public policy decisions—become much clearer in light of this history. Where the discussion of gerrymandering has typically emphasized political parties’ control of Congress, Tarter focuses on the state legislatures that determine congressional district lines and, in most states, even those of their own districts. On the eve of the 2021 session of the General Assembly, which will redraw district lines for Virginia’s state Senate and House of Delegates, as well as for the U.S. House of Representatives, Tarter’s book provides an eye-opening investigation of gerrymandering and its pervasive effect on our local, state, and national politics and government.
Author : Robert Beverley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1469607956
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Author : Northern Virginia Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Public lands
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