About this title: A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people.
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Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780813917740ISBN:0813917743
Description: Illustrated. Fine. 6 x 9.5 trade paperback book. Black and black lettering on the color illustrated spine and cover. Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical Society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. Each stage has its own story to tell. Together they offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before. 366 pages. 2nd Printing. Clean with tight binding in Fine condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780813917740ISBN:0813917743
Description: Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis celebrating the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea... read more
"I read and enjoyed the book. I was disappointed that there was little information concerning western Virginia - the territory west of the mountains - in fact I think at one time all the way to the Mississippi was Virginia, too. The story is a good insight into the move west - could have been even better."
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