The Planting Of New Virginia Settlement And Landscape In The Shenandoah Valley
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Author | : Warren R. Hofstra |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801882715 |
An important addition to scholarship of the geography and history of colonial and early America, The Planting of New Virginia, rethinks American history and the evolution of the American landscape in the colonial era.
Author | : Langdon Smith |
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Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Warren R. Hofstra |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2004-04-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801874185 |
Author | : Robert D. Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Farm life |
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Landscape and environmental study of forest, open land areas, soil and land clearance during the colonial settlement period in the Valley of Virginia, in particular of Berkeley, Frederick, Shenandoah, Rockingham, Augusta and Rockbridge counties. Includes analysis of surveys/records and the land grant process employed during that time, with an emphasis on Frederick County. References to impact on both flora (specific trees) and fauna (grazing animals and game). Numerous references to recorded accounts of the time.
Author | : Warren R. Hofstra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
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The Great Valley Road of Virginia chronicles the story of one of America's oldest, most historic, and most geographically significant roads. Emphasized throughout the chapters is a concern for landscape character and the connection of the land to the people who traveled the road and to permanent residents, who depended upon it for their livelihoods. Also included are chapters about the towns supported by the road as well as the relationship of physical geography (the lay of the land) to the engineering of the road. More than one hundred maps, photographs, engravings, and line drawings enhance the book's value to scholars and general readers alike. Published in association with the Center for American Places
Author | : Colin G. Calloway |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190652187 |
George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United States--reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more chronicled figure. Yet American history has largely forgotten what Washington himself knew clearly: that the new Republic's fate depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and self-governance and more on land--Indian land. Colin G. Calloway's biography of the greatest founding father reveals in full the relationship between Washington and the Native leaders he dealt with intimately across the decades: Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Guyasuta, Attakullakulla, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Cornplanter, Red Jacket, and Little Turtle, among many others. Using the prism of Washington's life to bring focus to these figures and the tribes they represented--the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware--Calloway reveals how central their role truly was in Washington's, and therefore the nation's, foundational narrative. Calloway gives the First Americans their due, revealing the full extent and complexity of the relationships between the man who rose to become the nation's most powerful figure and those whose power and dominion declined in almost equal degree during his lifetime. His book invites us to look at America's origins in a new light. The Indian World of George Washington is a brilliant portrait of both the most revered man in American history and those whose story during the tumultuous century in which the country was formed has, until now, been only partially told.
Author | : Karl Raitz |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813178770 |
While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Distillers enshrine local history in their branding and time-tested recipes, and rightfully so. Kentucky's unique geography shaped the whiskeys its settlers produced, and for more than two centuries, distilling bourbon fundamentally altered every aspect of Kentucky's landscape and culture. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky illuminates how the specific geography, culture, and ecology of the Bluegrass converged and gave birth to Kentucky's favorite barrel-aged whiskey. Expanding on his fall 2019 release Bourbon's Backroads, Karl Raitz delivers a more nuanced discussion of bourbon's evolution by contrasting the fates of two distilleries in Scott and Nelson Counties. In the nineteenth century, distilling changed from an artisanal craft practiced by farmers and millers to a large-scale mechanized industry. The resulting infrastructure—farms, mills, turnpikes, railroads, steamboats, lumberyards, and cooperage shops—left its permanent mark on the land and traditions of the commonwealth. Today, multinational brands emphasize and even construct this local heritage. This unique interdisciplinary study uncovers the complex history poured into every glass of bourbon.
Author | : Drew A. Swanson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2014-08-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 030020681X |
Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters. Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virginia tobacco farm, explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. He weaves together social, agricultural, and cultural history of the Piedmont region and illustrates how ideas about race and landscape management became entangled under slavery and afterward. Challenging long-held perceptions, this innovative study examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land, and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region.
Author | : Raymond D. Irwin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440829225 |
This volume offers a complete listing and description of books published on early America between 2001 and 2005. An extraordinary research tool, Books on Early American History and Culture, 2001-2005: An Annotated Bibliography is part of a series listing materials on the history of North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This volume includes monographs, reference works, exhibition catalogs, and essay collections published between 2001 and 2005. Each entry provides the name of the work, its author(s) or editor(s), publisher, date of publication, ISBN and/or OCLC number(s), and the Library of Congress call number. Following each detailed citation, there is a brief summary of the work and a list of journals in which it has been reviewed. Organized thematically, the book covers, among many other topics, exploration and colonization; maritime history; environment; Native Americans; race, gender, and ethnicity; migration; labor and class; business; families; religion; material culture; science; education; politics; and military affairs.
Author | : Rob Harper |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081224964X |
In Revolutionary America, colonists surged across the Appalachians, Indians fought to preserve their land, and a bloodbath ensued—but why? Breaking with previous interpretations, Unsettling the West tells the story of a frontier where government initiatives, rather than pioneer independence, drove violence and colonization.