The upper Rappahannock Valley on the Piedmont central plateau warrants a special treatment. Through it was made the initial entry over the Blue Ridge mountains
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1.5a Virginia: the Backcountry: the Primeval Pond of Rural Populism during the Drift to Independence
Virginia’s Demographic Change (Population Movement) and Challenge to is Tidewater Policy System While Virginia’s specific demographic, cultural and economic configurations were not identical by any
1.3C: Western Land Settlement, Migrations into the Shenandoah Valley: Planter Oligopoly Reaction Formation of Land Development Companies
Recap and Restatement: an Intro The next to last module discussed the formation of the Royalist Tidewater political culture and the the overall economic development-related
1. Settlement of the Piedmont Rise of the Piedmont Plantation Elite
There were several change drivers that affected the economic development strategies of the period. The more important dynamics included: (1) settlement of the Piedmont by
2.0 Virginia: Migrations, Culture and Policy Systems to 1800:
Migration-Political Culture, Colonial Policy System & Land Development–Pre Revolutionary War Virginia: Culture: Prime Driver of ED, Concepts, Importance and Implications: Bernard Bailyn described four “circuits”
Ron W. Coan 