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Article: The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley.(Book Review)
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- Southeastern Geographer
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- May 1, 2005
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The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley Warren R. Hofstra. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2004. 410 pp., maps, photographs. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-7418-1).
Meticulously researched, archivally rich yet woven to a larger economic and political history, The Planting of New Virginia chronicles the evolution of the "town and country" landscape of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Warren R. Hofstra documents the origins of what he calls a "landscape of competence" (p. 320)--from the arrival of white settlers in the 1730s, to subsistence farming then commercial agriculture, to the creation of village ...