Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004JXQ8O6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 532 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Useful but uneven As a continuation of the ground-breaking Albion's Seed, this book is a mixed success. On the one hand, it follows the four threads of Albion's Seed (Cavaliers, Puritans, Quakers, Border) from old Virginia to the new frontiers. The demographic information is interesting and sometimes surprising. On the other hand, the book relies too often on biographies of a few Virginians and is very weak in explaining the massive migration to Ohio in the decades before the Civil War. It is much stronger in foll. Enormous Insight into the Settling of America by Virginians Ilinois Reader Many observers have remarked that Virginia is the mother of the states. This book backs up that idea with facts, observations, and great storytelling.It is important to note that the books drive is to counter, or at least contrast the "Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner. The book argues that Virginians brought their culture with them, first from Britain, then to Virginia and beyond.I found the expansion of Virginians in the Mid-Western states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio very int. Migration Patterns To, Thru, and Beyond Virginia John M. Johnson If you know a lot of facts about your immigrant ancestors in the 1600s and 1700s, and where they originally came from, this book may very well give you some insight into their lives as they moved to, thru and beyond Virginia. Virginia was the gateway to many states, north, west and south. This is the story of the settlement of a good bit of this country and it is EXCEPTIONALLY well done. The sources of information are identified in an extensive bibliography and the author presents his analysis of
Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. Where Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. The wealth of anecdotes in this volume offer a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser known gentry, yeomen, servants, and slaves who were all "bound away" to an old new world.. As people moved west, they built new societies from old materials, in a double-acting process that made America what it is today. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative process of high importance in American history, but they understand it in a different way. After the Turner thesis, which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Virginia's long history enables them to provide a rich portrait of migration and expansion as a dynamic process that preserved strong cultural continuities. They suggest that the oxymoron "bound away" - from the folk song "Shenandoah" - captures a vital truth about American history. Fischer and Kelly believe that the westward movement was a broad cultural process, which is best understoo