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The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832

By Richard R. Beeman

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780812200874
DOI
10.9783/9780812200874
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14677934 bytes)
Pages
288\288
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 20:30:45

Description

The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry is 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.

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