Paying special attention to the Shenandoah Valley's backcountry frontier culture, Hofstra shows how that culture played a unique role in the territorial struggle between European empires and Native American nations. He weaves together the broad cultural and geographic threads that underlie the story of the valley's place in the early European settlement of eastern North America. He also reveals the distinctive ways in which settlers shaped the valley's geography during the eighteenth century, a pattern that evolved from "discrete open-country neighborhoods" into a complex "town and country settlement" that would come to characterize -- and in many ways epitomize -- middle America.
An important addition to scholarship of the geography and history of colonial and early America, The Planting of New Virginia, rethinks American history and the evolution of the American landscape in the colonial era.
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Paying special attention to the Shenandoah Valley's backcountry frontier culture, Hofstra shows how that culture played a unique role in the territorial struggle between European empires and Native American nations. He weaves together the broad cultural and geographic threads that underlie the story of the valley's place in the early European settlement of eastern North America. He also reveals the distinctive ways in which settlers shaped the valley's geography during the eighteenth century, a pattern that evolved from "discrete open-country neighborhoods" into a complex "town and country settlement" that would come to characterize -- and in many ways epitomize -- middle America.
An important addition to scholarship of the geography and history of colonial and early America, The Planting of New Virginia, rethinks American history and the evolution of the American landscape in the colonial era.
Imprint | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Creating the North American Landscape |
Release date | November 2005 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 2004 |
Authors | Warren R. Hofstra |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 432 |
Edition | Revised |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-8271-5 |
Barcode | 9780801882715 |
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LSN | 0-8018-8271-0 |