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Title: Bound Away
Subtitle: Virginia and the Westward Movement
Author: David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly
Narrator: Bruce Miles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-14-10
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 22 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
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 folk song "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 it is today.
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 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.
Critic Reviews:
"An exciting and valuable book.... A must for all interested in the expansion of the American frontier." (Carol S. Ebel, Georgia Historical Quarterly)
