The evolution of the southern backcountry : a case study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 / Richard R. Beeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeman, Richard R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lunenburg County (Va.)--Civilization.

Lunenburg County (Va.).

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Case studies.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

First paperback printing, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613211316

9781283211314

1283211319

9780812200874

081220087X

OCLC:

563638864