The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley

by Warren R. Hofstra

Book Overview

In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as New Virginia, the region west of the Blue Ridge Mountains set off the world of the farmer from that of the planter, grain and livestock production from tobacco culture, and a free labor society from a slave labor society. In The Planting of New Virginia Warren Hofstra offers the first comprehensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882710
• ISBN13: 9780801882715
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"