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Breadnut Island Pen: Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaican Provisioning Estate, 1767-1768, Amy B. Kowalski
Breadnut Island Pen: Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaican Provisioning Estate, 1767-1768, Amy B. Kowalski
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Beneath The Umbrellas Of Benevolent Men: Validation Of The Middle-Class Woman In "Little Women" And "Five Little Peppers And How They Grew", Sandra Burr
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Joyce's Nets As Semiotic Systems, Marguerite Carey Laws
Joyce's Nets As Semiotic Systems, Marguerite Carey Laws
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"In The Hollow Lotus-Land": Discord, Order, And The Emergence Of Stability In Early Bermuda, 1609-1623, Matthew R. Laird
"In The Hollow Lotus-Land": Discord, Order, And The Emergence Of Stability In Early Bermuda, 1609-1623, Matthew R. Laird
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Town Development In The Colonial Backcountry: Virginia And North Carolina, Christopher E. Hendricks
Town Development In The Colonial Backcountry: Virginia And North Carolina, Christopher E. Hendricks
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The backcountry of colonial Virginia and North Carolina saw a process of urbanization during the third quarter of the eighteenth century uniquely shaped by a large-scale migration from colonies to the north, aided by the westward extension of local government. This rapid development did not lead to the creation of a hierarchical economic system of central places, but rather linear networks shaped by the geography of the region. Ironically, this phenomenon occurred in an area of two American colonies usually considered to be devoid of towns.;This dissertation is a study of twenty-eight towns established from 1744 to 1776 in the …