| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Bradford J. Wood. This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775. (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 344. $39.95.

After years of relative neglect, the fields of North Carolina's early history are once again being plowed. Books by Jon F. Sensbach, Kirsten Fischer, Wayne Lee, and this reviewer and a recent dissertation by Noeleen McIlvenna have increased our understanding of the Piedmont and Albemarle regions as places where settlers marched to the beat of their own drums. North Carolina long remained in many respects a developing frontier where repeated waves of newcomers searched for autonomy from bothersome authorities and where those on the make could rise, and fall, fast. Farmers and hunters who came with hopes for family independence and a more egalitarian world repeatedly clashed with men who believed social hierarchy to be the key to realizing their dreams of prosperity. To this recent body of work, but not necessarily in its spirit, Bradford J. Wood adds a study of the Lower Cape Fear region.

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