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The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley (Creating the North American Landscape)

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In the eighteenth century, Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley changed into a key corridor for The united states’s westward expansion during the Cumberland Gap. Referred to 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 considered one of North The united states’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 all the North American Atlantic world.

Paying special attention to the Shenandoah Valley’s backcountry frontier culture, Hofstra shows how that culture played a unique role within 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 within the early European settlement of eastern North The united states. He also reveals the distinctive ways by which settlers shaped the valley’s geography all through 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 The united states.

An essential addition to scholarship of the geography and history of colonial and early The united states, The Planting of New Virginia, rethinks American history and the evolution of the American landscape within the colonial era.


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