Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier.(Book review)

The Historian | December 22, 2006| | Copyright

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 ...

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