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This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775. By Bradford J. Wood. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xx, 344 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-540-7.)
The lower Cape Fear region (New Hanover and Brunswick counties) is a well-studied area of eighteenth-century North Carolina, and the author of this study, Bradford J. Wood, makes extensive use of all of the conventional sources. He moves a step beyond them, however, by gathering quantifiable data from local records (court minutes, land records, church records, etc.) to fill in the considerable gaps in the extant records and thereby to subject this region to a different kind of analysis. . . .
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