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The Evolution of the Southern Back Country - A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Evolution of the Southern Back Country - A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (Paperback, Revised)
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"What makes Beeman's study of early Lunenburg especially noteworthy
is the way he analyzes the failure of the rich man's culture to
flourish in the poor man's country once it had been transplanted
there. . . . Beeman offers a valuable insight into the nature--and
the limits--of cultural authority in colonial Virginia."--"Reviews
in American History" "Beeman's fascinating study . . . is unusually
comprehensive, skillfully weaving complex economic, political, and
religious matters with a broad concern for social and community
change, and it is contextual, employing the case study to address
the wider issue of the formation of a southern regional identity.
Beeman's success at combining chronicle and process will make his
work a model for future studies of this kind."--"Journal of
Southern History" "This book is the product of an impressive amount
of primary sources and composes an excellent microcosm study of a
southern country progressing through metamorphic stages from
frontier to conservative agrarian community. . . . A substantial
contribution to an understanding of the role of the grassroots
community in the making of the social and cultural profile of the
greater South."--"Southern Quarterly" "The first serious
book-length study of a local community in the Southern Colonies. .
. . One of the best local studies on any place in
eighteenth-century American, it is a work of unusual
importance."--Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University "With
sensitivity to the complexities of the process, the author has
traced an important cultural transformation in Virginia and in the
South generally."--Thad W. Tate, Institute of Early American
History and Culture "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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