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Book Description: UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780813917740

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Book Description: University of Virginia Press, United States, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1999. Corr. 2nd Printing ed. 235 x 155 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative process of high importance in American history, but they understand it in a different way.Where Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. Virginia's long history enables them to provide a rich portrait of migration and expansion as a dynamic process that preserved strong cultural continuities. They suggest that the oxymoron "bound away"--from the folksong Shenandoah--captures a vital truth about American history. As people moved west, they built new societies from old materials, in a double-acting process that made America what is today.Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. Each stage has its own story to tell. All of them together offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before.Fischer and Kelly believe that the westward movement was a broad cultural process, which is best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites, but also through the physical artifacts and folkways of ordinary people. The wealth of anecdotes and illustrations in this volume offer a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser known gentry, yeomen, servants, and slaves who were all "bound away" to an old new world. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780813917740

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Book Description: University of Virginia Press. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement, David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly. Bookseller Inventory # B9780813917740

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Book Description: UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780813917740

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Book Description: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 1999. corr. 2nd edition. 366 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0813917743

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Book Description: University of Virginia Press, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 9.3 by 6 inches. (00366 pages) [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] 1999. Corr. 2nd illustrated Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Paperback ). Bookseller Inventory # AF0813917743

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Book Description: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 1999. corr. 2nd edition. 366 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-0813917743

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 158mm x 28mm x 236mm. 366 pages. 0.585. Bookseller Inventory # 9780813917740

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 158mm x 28mm x 236mm. 366 pages. 0.585. Bookseller Inventory # 9780813917740

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