Evolution of the Southern Back Country: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0812279263
ISBN 13
9780812279269
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Publication Year
1984
Publisher
Pages
320
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. - from Amzon
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