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The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover /
"After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct...
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Short Titles; Introduction; William Byrd II of Westover; Taking up Land; How the Survey Was Executed; Accretion, Expansion, and Amplification; Byrd among the Literary Critics and Historians; Textual History; Byrd's Narratives; The Two Histories; Prehistory of The History of the Dividing Line; Byrd's Revisions; Editions of the Dividing Line Histories; Editorial Matters; Editorial Method; Internal Evidence; A Note on the Illustrations.
- The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina Run in the Year of Our Lord 1728Endnotes to The History of the Dividing Line; The Secret History of the Line; Introduction; The Secret History of the Line; Endnotes to The Secret History of the Line; Appendix 1: Dramatis Personae; Appendix 2: Bibliographical Notes; Bibliography of Works by William Byrd II; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.