The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

by Rhys Isaac

Overview

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807838600
Publisher:	Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
Publication date:	12/01/2012
Series:	Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	492
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Rhys Isaac (1937-2010) was Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Emeritus Professor of History at LaTrobe University in Australia.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

One of the best—and most provocative—books written on colonial Anglo-America over the past decade, it must be the starting point for all further work on the subject. Equally important, [Isaac's] efforts to demonstrate how historians can profitably employ some of the tools of symbolic anthropologists . . . deserve close inspection.—Times Literary Supplement

[A] gracefully written evocation of eighteenth-century Virginia culture. . . . The book convinces us that close attention to commonplace events and their settings by someone of Isaac's ability will give us fresh access to long lost worlds.—American Historical Review

Editorial Reviews

One of the best-and most provocative-books written on colonial Anglo-America over the past decade.

"Times Literary Supplement"

[A] gracefully written evocation of eighteenth-century Virginia culture.

"American Historical Review"

ÝA¨ gracefully written evocation of eighteenth-century Virginia culture.

"American Historical Review"

One of the best--and most provocative--books written on colonial Anglo-America over the past decade.

"Times Literary Supplement"

From the Publisher