Author: Alden Hatch
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Byrds of Virginia are among the most powerful and influential families in this country--and are also one of the oldest. The first Byrd ("William I") settled in Virginia in 1670 and was the founder of the Byrd dynasty that is vigorously represented today by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Now, eminent author Alden Hatch, with style, wit and extraordinary scholarship, traces the history of the Byrds from 1670 to the present in one of the most engrossing and important biographies of an American family to appear in many years. -- Front book flap
The Byrds of Virginia
Author: Alden Hatch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Byrds of Virginia are among the most powerful and influential families in this country--and are also one of the oldest. The first Byrd ("William I") settled in Virginia in 1670 and was the founder of the Byrd dynasty that is vigorously represented today by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Now, eminent author Alden Hatch, with style, wit and extraordinary scholarship, traces the history of the Byrds from 1670 to the present in one of the most engrossing and important biographies of an American family to appear in many years. -- Front book flap
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Byrds of Virginia are among the most powerful and influential families in this country--and are also one of the oldest. The first Byrd ("William I") settled in Virginia in 1670 and was the founder of the Byrd dynasty that is vigorously represented today by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Now, eminent author Alden Hatch, with style, wit and extraordinary scholarship, traces the history of the Byrds from 1670 to the present in one of the most engrossing and important biographies of an American family to appear in many years. -- Front book flap
Byrd's Line
Author: Stephen C. Ausband
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Byrd often mused about what would happen to the land in the future. While some of the dividing line still feels like wilderness, it is crisscrossed today by bridges and roads, its forests felled and paved over for parking lots and subdivisions, its waters diverted or drained. Ausband's story, therefore, is a natural history of a changed region."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Byrd often mused about what would happen to the land in the future. While some of the dividing line still feels like wilderness, it is crisscrossed today by bridges and roads, its forests felled and paved over for parking lots and subdivisions, its waters diverted or drained. Ausband's story, therefore, is a natural history of a changed region."--BOOK JACKET.
The Early Byrds of Grayson County, Virginia and Many of Their Descendants
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 955
Book Description
John Byrd died before 1782 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. He and his wife, Sarah, had four known children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Grayson County, Virginia.
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 955
Book Description
John Byrd died before 1782 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. He and his wife, Sarah, had four known children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Grayson County, Virginia.
The Byrds of Virginia
Author: Alden Hatch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Byrds of Virginia are among the most powerful and influential families in this country--and are also one of the oldest. The first Byrd ("William I") settled in Virginia in 1670 and was the founder of the Byrd dynasty that is vigorously represented today by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Now, eminent author Alden Hatch, with style, wit and extraordinary scholarship, traces the history of the Byrds from 1670 to the present in one of the most engrossing and important biographies of an American family to appear in many years. -- Front book flap
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Byrds of Virginia are among the most powerful and influential families in this country--and are also one of the oldest. The first Byrd ("William I") settled in Virginia in 1670 and was the founder of the Byrd dynasty that is vigorously represented today by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Now, eminent author Alden Hatch, with style, wit and extraordinary scholarship, traces the history of the Byrds from 1670 to the present in one of the most engrossing and important biographies of an American family to appear in many years. -- Front book flap
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712
Author: William Byrd
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776
Author: William Byrd
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776
Author: Marion Tinling
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Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Byrds of Virginia an American Dynastry, 1670 to the Present
Author: Alden Hatch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Diary and Life of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744
Author: Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This eloquent and provocative essay describes the emergence of a Virginia gentleman. Sent to England for an education, William Byrd II soon learned to emulate the ideals of English gentility. In 1704 the thirty-year-old Byrd inherited his father's estates in Virginia, but he lived in England for much of the next twenty-five years pursuing his political ambitions. Thwarted in his efforts to obtain either the position to which he aspired or a wealthy bride, Byrd finally faced personal and financial ruin. Only then did he come to be both literally and figuratively at home in Virginia. The story is told through Kenneth Lockridge's compelling reading of a seemingly intractable source: Byrd's secret diaries. Drawing upon psychohistory, social psychology, cultural anthropology, and literary criticism, Lockridge relates the narrative of a single life, of a person struggling for realization within the context of a Virginia aristocracy itself striving for a mature conception of its role. He captures the essence of what it was to become a Virginia gentleman, and the terrible price leading Virginians paid for the eventual success of their class. In the process, Lockridge demonstrates how a close reading of literary texts can reveal large historical themes. He explores the politics of the eighteenth-century colonial and imperial world and reveals the exact moment at which a matured colonial gentry seized the initiative from its British masters -- fifty years before the Revolution.
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This eloquent and provocative essay describes the emergence of a Virginia gentleman. Sent to England for an education, William Byrd II soon learned to emulate the ideals of English gentility. In 1704 the thirty-year-old Byrd inherited his father's estates in Virginia, but he lived in England for much of the next twenty-five years pursuing his political ambitions. Thwarted in his efforts to obtain either the position to which he aspired or a wealthy bride, Byrd finally faced personal and financial ruin. Only then did he come to be both literally and figuratively at home in Virginia. The story is told through Kenneth Lockridge's compelling reading of a seemingly intractable source: Byrd's secret diaries. Drawing upon psychohistory, social psychology, cultural anthropology, and literary criticism, Lockridge relates the narrative of a single life, of a person struggling for realization within the context of a Virginia aristocracy itself striving for a mature conception of its role. He captures the essence of what it was to become a Virginia gentleman, and the terrible price leading Virginians paid for the eventual success of their class. In the process, Lockridge demonstrates how a close reading of literary texts can reveal large historical themes. He explores the politics of the eighteenth-century colonial and imperial world and reveals the exact moment at which a matured colonial gentry seized the initiative from its British masters -- fifty years before the Revolution.
The Byrds and Their Estates (the Line of William Byrd II to Henry Flood Byrd)
Author: Derek Pappin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description