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Article: Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2006
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Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier. By L. Scott Philyaw. (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 176. $33.00.)
In this elegant book, the author examines Virginia's western empire from the colonial period through the end of the Civil War. In particular, he describes how Virginia's colonial and early national elites viewed western expansion both politically and culturally, how they tried to control frontier development, and how the western movements affected the state. Furthermore, he suggests the ways that the Virginia experience of the frontier shaped national policies toward the ...