Warren R. Hofstra

This is a close analysis of how the demands of border control in Virginia led men in London and Williamsburg to spark the creation of the prototype region of the American frontier experience. Besides considering how the contingent demands of British empire building provided a series of jolts to populating and then developing the region, Hofstra is most concerned with examining the "vernacular" experience of the Scotch-Irish, German, and Dissenter settler families who were seeking to carve out independent lives for themselves, but who in the process created a commercial dynamo via the grain trade.… (meer)