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

Name: Evolution of the Southern Backcountry A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832
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ISBN: 9780812212983

ISBN-10: 0812212983

ISBN-13: 9780812212983

Edition: 1985

Authors: Richard Beeman

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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,…

Book details

Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 5/1/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

RICHARD BEEMAN is John Welsh Centennial Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of the Penguin Civic Classics series and the author of seven books, including The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution . He lives in Philadelphia.