The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry
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The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry

A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry

A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Maps
  5. List of Tables
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue
  8. ONE: Settling the Wilderness
  9. TWO: Building Communities in the Wilderness
  10. THREE: A Southside Community in Transition
  11. FOUR: The Evangelical Revolt in the Backcountry
  12. FIVE: The Constitutional Revolt in the Backcountry
  13. SIX: The Clash of Cultural Styles
  14. SEVEN: Toward Stability
  15. EIGHT: The Accommodation of Cultures
  16. NINE: The Creation of a Southern Identity
  17. Epilogue
  18. Appendix 1 The Economic Elite of Lunenburg County, 1750–1815
  19. Appendix 2 Lunenburg County Court, 1770–1815
  20. Notes
  21. Index