| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
The Evolution of the Southern Backcountryis the story of an expanding frontier. Richard Beeman offers a lively and well-written account of the creation of bonds of community among the farmers who settled Lunenburg Country, far to the south and west of Virginia's center of political and economic activity. Beeman's view of the nature of community provides an important dynamic model of the transmission of culture from older, more settled regions of Virginia to the southern frontier. He describes how the southern frontier was influenced by those staples of American historical development: opportunity, mobility, democracy, and ethnic pluralism; and he shows how the county evolved socially, culturally, and economically to become distinctly southern |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) |
| Audience |
College Audience University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Subject |
Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Case studies
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Lunenburg County (Va.) -- Civilization
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| Subject |
Virginia
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Virginia -- Lunenburg County
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812212983 |
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0812212983 |
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9780812200874 |
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081220087X |
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0812279263 |
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9780812279269 |
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