ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the way that America's landscape was portrayed in print and manuscript culture between 1660 and 1745, using six paired themes: scientific and religious; imperial and political; and economic and legal understandings. It explores the colonial south was both typical and atypical, that its settlers and visitors drove pioneering cultural developments. The book explains a unique southern backwoods culture began to emerge, but this really only came to fruition in the period after 1750. For much of the early eighteenth century, print culture seemed to be pulling America in an Atlantic direction, emphasising the shared identity with Britain rather than settlers' uniqueness. Material culture aside, this desire to acquire the accoutrements of the British elite also affected the development of the built environment in North America. Politically, American residents chose which aspects of British culture to adopt as their own.
