{"product_id":"a-saga-of-the-new-brent-tarter-9780813938776","title":"A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. \u003ci\u003eA Saga of the New South\u003c\/i\u003e delves into the largely untold story of the decades-long postwar controversies over the repayment of that debt. The result is a major reinterpretation of late-nineteenth-century Virginia political history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe post-Civil War public debt controversy in Virginia reshaped the state's political landscape twice. First it created the conditions under which the Readjuster Party, a biracial coalition of radical reformers, seized control of the state government in 1879 and successfully refinanced the debt; then it gave rise to a counterrevolution that led the elitist Democratic Party to eighty years of dominance in the state's politics. Despite the Readjusters' victory in refinancing the debt and their increased spending for the popular new system of free public schools, the debt controversy generated a long train of legal disputes--at least eighty-five cases reached the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, and twenty-nine reached the Supreme Court of the United States. Through an in-depth look at these political and legal contests, \u003ci\u003eA Saga of the New South\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the many obstacles that reformers faced in Virginia and the South after the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brent Tarter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813938775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813938776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016","brand":"Brent Tarter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926418882815,"sku":"9780813938776","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3821701d-50a0-4652-a061-09eaeb3e761a.jpg?v=1681082980","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-saga-of-the-new-brent-tarter-9780813938776","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}