Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement

by David Hackett Fischer (Author), James C. Kelly (Author)

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Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative process of high importance in American history, but they understand it in a different way.

Where Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. Virginia's long history enables them to provide a rich portrait of migration and expansion as a dynamic process that preserved strong cultural continuities. They suggest that the oxymoron "bound away"―from the folksong Shenandoah―captures a vital truth about American history. As people moved west, they built new societies from old materials, in a double-acting process that made America what is today.

Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. Each stage has its own story to tell. All of them together offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before.

Fischer and Kelly believe that the westward movement was a broad cultural process, which is best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites, but also through the physical artifacts and folkways of ordinary people. The wealth of anecdotes and illustrations in this volume offer a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser known gentry, yeomen, servants, and slaves who were all "bound away" to an old new world.

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David Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. James C. Kelly is Assistant Director for Museums at the Virginia Historical Society.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Virginia Press (March 10, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813917743
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813917740
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.29 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.23 x 1.09 x 9.3 inches

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James C. McFarland

An important part of the story of how our modern societal conflict came to be.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2020

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Years ago I purchased and read a book by David Hackett Fischer called ALBION’S SEED, an account of the English migration to North America, which was fascinating. Lately, during the Covid lockdown, I started looking at my family history, which was entwined in that English migration, and discovered BOUND AWAY by Prof. Fischer, which described the history of events that affected my family’s movements that determined where I was born. I am in the midst of reading HAMILTON, by Ron Chernow. Putting all of this together leads to a more complete understanding of where this nation came from, the difficulty of organizing and governing it, and the biases and prejudices that continue to afflict us and our fellow citizens. I found BOUND AWAY to be terrific.

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Ilinois Reader

Enormous Insight into the Settling of America by Virginians

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2013

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Many observers have remarked that Virginia is the mother of the states. This book backs up that idea with facts, observations, and great storytelling.

It is important to note that the books drive is to counter, or at least contrast the "Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner. The book argues that Virginians brought their culture with them, first from Britain, then to Virginia and beyond.

I found the expansion of Virginians in the Mid-Western states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio very interesting. In most cases, Virginians were the first settlers. My own family tree consists of Pioneering Virginians heading to the Free Soil states of the Old Northwest.

This book is a further expansion on David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed and one hopes that he writes more about the expansion of America's other founding cultural hearths.

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rodger

Glad this companion book to Albion's Seed is available

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2020

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I love this book and Albion's Seed too.
Most of the time, you read/hear alot about the Scotch-Irish history of the American South and it's the same for geneology among Southern families but there's not as much emphasis placed on the English settlers of the South even though they had more impact on Southern culture, Southern dialects, and Southern history than any other European group in the Southern colonies. As a native Tennessean, and as someone who has just as many Western-English surnames in my family tree as Scotch-Irish or German ones, this book is a real eye-opener and teaches the reader alot about the history and influence the English and Anglo-Virginian settlers impact was on the cultural roots and family tree of many native Southerners and how that influence has persisted to this day on the regional culture of the American South.

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Useful but uneven

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2010

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As a continuation of the ground-breaking Albion's Seed, this book is a mixed success. On the one hand, it follows the four threads of Albion's Seed (Cavaliers, Puritans, Quakers, Border) from old Virginia to the new frontiers. The demographic information is interesting and sometimes surprising. On the other hand, the book relies too often on biographies of a few Virginians and is very weak in explaining the massive migration to Ohio in the decades before the Civil War. It is much stronger in following Virginians to the south than to the west and upper midwest, even though Ohio was a major resettlement area. I have to wonder whether this is because Virginia migrants were not as culturally dominant when they moved to Ohio and other more northern states - were they absorbed in the Puritan-Quaker flow? My own Virginia ancestors made just such moves - from the frontier into Ohio from 1818 to 1850, and I had hoped to learn more about this flow. Still, Bound Away presents a strong challenge to the Turner thesis that the frontier was the source of American democracy and renewal. It is a worthwhile study of an important subject.

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Books4Wisdom

Nice condensed history

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2017

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Very informative. This is a nice addition, not necessarily the main source, to understanding the early history of Virginia and how it had effect the development of other Southern states. I highly recommend reading.

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John M. Johnson

Migration Patterns To, Thru, and Beyond Virginia

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2011

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If you know a lot of facts about your immigrant ancestors in the 1600s and 1700s, and where they originally came from, this book may very well give you some insight into their lives as they moved to, thru and beyond Virginia. Virginia was the gateway to many states, north, west and south. This is the story of the settlement of a good bit of this country and it is EXCEPTIONALLY well done. The sources of information are identified in an extensive bibliography and the author presents his analysis of the information contained therein. This book presents a whole new framework for studying your immigrant ancestors.

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Donald Steiny

Great extension of the English Folkways

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2000

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After reading Albion's Seed I was eager to read more about the English folkways. This book expands on that with information about German folkways and African folkways. This books gives a sense the people that expanded westward. There is also a philosophical current about the nature of historial inquiry. He addresses various ideas about frontiers and shows that the process of expansion is not open to one-size-fits all explainations. Though Fischer depricates purely materialist explainations of history, the interplay between the cultural values of the Virginians and the physical limitations of the land is a compelling explaination of the westward expansion.

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Judy M

Excellent history!

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2012

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This is very well written and interesting book. I'm into genealogy and found very useful background information. I also learned a lot about Virginia and why and how people moved around and ultimately went west. I've recommended it to several others. If all histories used in schools were this interesting and informative, lots more kids would love history!

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