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Article: The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley.(Book review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
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- March 22, 2006
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The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, and index, xv+410 pp. $49.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-8018-7418-1.
A strategic location on the periphery of a global power, beset by colonial strife, and enmeshed in a complex web of resource exchange and ethnic power relations might best fit one of today's news reports if it were not for the setting: the frontier of eighteenth-century Virginia. The Planting of New Virginia places the settlement and development of the Shenandoah Valley, the first European ...