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Article: The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley.(Book review)
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- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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THE PLANTING OF NEW VIRGINIA: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By WARREN R. HOFSTRA. xv and 410 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0801874181; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 0801882710.
In The Planting of New Virginia Warren Hofstra seeks to explain how backcountry settlements on the frontier of Virginia evolved through the eighteenth century from dispersed farming communities to a town-and-country landscape that became commonplace as the frontier continued to spread. Hofstra explains, critiques, and appropriately utilizes larger theoretical frameworks, such as central place theory ...