| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. By Christopher E. Hendricks. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxii, 186 pp. $36.00, ISBN 1-57233-543-2.)

Since Robert Mitchell's Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early Shenandoah Valley (1977), a wealth of scholarship has appeared on the Virginia backcountry. This volume considers a topic more typically associated with New England—the colonial town. Christopher E. Hendricks examines twenty- five towns in Virginia's backcountry—a broad region he defines as extending from the Fall Line in the east to the upper reaches of the Potomac and James rivers watersheds in the west (excluding Kentucky's fortified settlements of the 1770s). He provides a "narrative history of every town attempted in the Virginia backcountry, [to reveal] a fuller picture of backcountry urban development by exploring a wider array of factors that shaped the success or failure of these communities" (p. xiv).

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