Front cover image for William Branch Giles : a study in the politics of Virginia and the Nation from 1790 to 1830

William Branch Giles : a study in the politics of Virginia and the Nation from 1790 to 1830

Print Book, English, 1914
George Banta Pub., Menasha, Wis., 1914
Biographies
6 preliminary leaves, 271 pages : 2 portrait (including frontispiece) ; 23 cm
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Early years
Fighting the Federalists
The Jay treaty
The retirement of Washington and the French War
The Virginia resolutions of 1798 and the election of 1800
Republican reformation : war on the courts
Monroe's treaty and the Burr trial
the Chesapeake outrage and the Treason Bill
The campaign of 1808 : repeal of the embargo
The Smith faction
The War of 1812 : Triumphant insurgency
"Putting claws on Gallatin"
Closing the war : retirement of Senator Giles
States rights in Virginia after the War of 1812
The Convention of 1829-30
Enlarged edition of the author's thesis (PH. D.) University of Chicago, 1912