The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry : : A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 / / Richard R. Beeman.
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 economi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©1985 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- ONE. Settling the Wilderness
- TWO. Building Communities in the Wilderness
- THREE. A Southside Community in Transition
- FOUR. The Evangelical Revolt in the Backcountry
- FIVE. The Constitutional Revolt in the Backcountry
- Six. The Clash of Cultural Styles
- SEVEN. Toward Stability
- EIGHT. The Accommodation of Cultures
- NINE. The Creation of a Southern Identity
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. The Economic Elite ofLunenburg County 1750-1815
- Appendix 2. I Lunenburg County Court, 1770-1815 234
- Notes
- Index