false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178477109m/798363.jpg 798363 3 Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. 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. 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. <P>Where Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. 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 folksong Shenandoah--captures a vital truth about American history. As people moved west, they built new societies from old materials, in a double-acting process that made America what is today. <P>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. All of them together offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before. <P>Fischer and Kelly believe that the westward movement was a broad cultural process, which is best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites, but also through the physical artifacts and folkways of ordinary people. The wealth of anecdotes and illustrations 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. 32295 1993 Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement total:5|5:1|4:2|3:2| 5 19 14 1 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sun Sep 20 16:10:07 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:14:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 19 18:52:24 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:52:24 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 06:47:42 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:37:18 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 18:15:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 18:15:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 11 09:42:13 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 09:42:13 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 30 09:01:01 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 09:01:01 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Dec 03 08:40:55 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 08:40:55 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri Nov 28 12:10:12 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 12:11:14 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Aug 05 09:38:22 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 09:38:22 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 23 16:03:46 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 16:03:46 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Apr 25 11:11:33 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 11:11:38 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Apr 20 17:27:49 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 17:28:04 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Apr 16 20:12:42 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 20:12:51 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jul 28 20:33:55 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 20:33:55 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=798363