In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a
key corridor for America's westward expansion through the
Cumberland Gap. Known as "New Virginia," the region west of the
Blue Ridge Mountains set off the world of the farmer from that of
the planter, grain and livestock production from tobacco culture,
and a free labor society from a slave labor society. In The
Planting of New Virginia Warren Hofstra offers the first
comprehensive geographical history of one of North America's most
significant frontier areas. By examining the early landscape
history of the Shenandoah Valley in its regional and global
context, Hofstra sheds new light on social, economic, political,
and intellectual developments that affected both the region and the
entire North American Atlantic world.
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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