Cover13; -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Soils of Old Virginia -- One: Property Lines and Power before Pharsalia, 17381796 -- Two: Independence and the Birth of Pharsalia, 17961830 -- Three: Pharsalias Ecological Crisis, 18281848 -- Four: Capitalism and Conservation at Pharsalia, 18481862 -- Five: The Gentry Family and the Fall of Pharsalia, 18611889 -- EPILOGUE. Mourning Pharsalia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W