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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early...
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by Rhys Isaac
Sales Rank : 322369
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Paperback: 462 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press April 14, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080784814X
ISBN-13: 978-0807848142
Product Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
One of the bestand most provocativebooks written on colonial Anglo-America over the past decade.
Times Literary Supplement
[A] gracefully written evocation of eighteenth-century Virginia culture.
American Historical Review
Product Description
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontationsprimarily religious and politicalthat 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.
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