The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832

Beeman, Richard R.

ISBN 10: 0812279263 / ISBN 13: 9780812279269

Published by University of Pennsylvania, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812279263
• ISBN 13: 9780812279269
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Richard R. Beeman is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.