The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
By Rhys Isaac
With a new preface by the author
492 pp., 6 x 9, 51 illus., 1 map, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4814-2
Published: April 1999 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-3860-0
Published: December 2012 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8036-9
Published: December 2012
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
1983 Pulitzer Prize in History
1983 National Historical Society Book Prize
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.
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"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