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Article: The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
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- April 1, 2005
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The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xv + 410 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $49.95.
In his thoroughly researched text, Warren R. Hofstra, professor of history at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, focuses the reader's attention upon life in "New Virginia," which was open land in the Shenandoah Valley when the eighteenth century began. At that time, eastern Virginia, which is to say Virginia east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, constituted a largely rural economy focused on tobacco and slave labor. In contrast, the Shenandoah Valley was largely empty of ...