Editorial Reviews
Review
"A thorough, wide-ranging analysis of the complex issues surrounding the white settlement of the Shenandoah Valley."--Thomas J. Humphrey, William and Mary Quarterly
"A welcome addition to the economic and geographic history of the valley, chronicling the area's transformation from an exchange to a market economy."-- Choice
"Historians will welcome a new look at the geography and culture of the Shenandoah Valley... Hofstra furnishes a scholarly appraisal of how those who stopped short of the Gap and settled in the Valley created a 'New Virginia.' Far different from the planters of Tidewater and the Piedmont, these hardy settlers thrived in their own backwoods culture."-- Richmond Times-Dispatch
"A fascinating picture of the ways in which 18th-century Virginians crafted, controlled, and imagined their landscapes."--Robert G. Parkinson, Virginia Quarterly Review
"This is a must read for anyone looking for information on the Shenandoah Valley during the colonial period."--Katherine Rindt, Potomac Appalachian
"Dense and well-argued... Hofstra meticulously matches... rural cultural mentalities with the geology and land covers of the Shenandoah subregion."--Jack Temple Kirby, American Historical Review
"Persuasively depicts the evolving landscape and society of Virginia's eighteenth-century Shenandoah Valley... Required and pleasurable reading for anyone interested in the development of the early American frontier."--Albert H. Tillson Jr., Journal of Southern History
"At once masterful synthesis and bold exploration... a history, not just of 'planting new Virginia,' but of planting... new America."--Marion Nelson Winship, Journal of American History
"Hofstra has ably woven together the many strands of the private and business lives of Shenandoah Valley residents during the formative colonial and early national eras... Comprehensive and well-written."--Keir B. Sterling, Environmental History
"An important contribution to the growing body of literature on the backcountry... The definitive work on the development of the Shenandoah Valley landscape."--Gabrielle M. Lanier, Journal of Social History
"A masterful analysis of the first century of European settlement in the region... An impressive body of primary research and historical and geographical literature."--A. Glenn Crothers, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Review
" The Planting of New Virginia is the product of years of patient, meticulous research and careful historical interpretation. It represents, in fact, a life's work. One of the most important contributions this book makes to the scholarship of colonial America is the success with which Hofstra places settlement in the Shenandoah Valley, and the communities, cultural landscapes and commercial networks that sprang from it, in the international context of strategic imperial decisions. The result is a richly textured history of the Valley in the eighteenth century that balances the aspirations of individual settlers with the broader imperial concerns of British ministers and colonial governors."--Carter L. Hudgins, Hofer Distinguished Professor of Early American Culture and Historic Preservation at Mary Washington College
The Planting of New Virginia : Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley (Creating the North American Landscape)
The Planting of New Virginia : Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley (Creating the North American Landscape),Warren R. Hofstra,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801882710,Architecture,Historical Geography,History - General History,Landscape,United States - Colonial Period,United States - General,United States - State & Local - South,Architecture / Landscape
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