| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier. By L. Scott Philyaw. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. xxviii, 180 pp. $33.00, ISBN 1-57233-307-3.)

This commendably succinct volume describes how elite Virginans viewed the west. As the author intelligently notes, analysis of Virginia's western policies, together with "the presumptions and attitudes that buttressed those policies," reveals "how Virginians expected their society to evolve" (p. x). L. Scott Philyaw thus seeks to examine early Virginia through the lens of its western vision and thereby to shed light on the values of the men who wielded power first in the colony and later in the commonwealth.

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