| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. By Laura Croghan Kamoie. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xii, 222 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2637-7.)

Cleverly entitled, this multigenerational exploration of northern Virginia's Tayloe family from the colonial through antebellum periods is broadly conceived, bibliographically informed, and significant to all aspects of the nation's early development. Much more than its restrictive title indicates, this probing investigation, though very important in Virginia, Chesapeake, and southern studies, transcends parochial sectional boundaries. The Tayloe family's economic activities paralleled the growth of the colonial Chesapeake and early national economy. In her narrative, Laura Croghan Kamoie critically employs as touchstones the economic actions of other planters and entrepreneurs in the Middle Atlantic world, especially those of the historian Jackson Turner Main's "One Hundred" (Virginia's wealthiest planters in the revolutionary era). The Tayloes were ensconced in the latter group and their importance extended into the social and political realms.

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