Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 - (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) 2nd Edition by Rhys Isaac (Paperback)

About the Book

Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in History, this book recreates and analyzes the dramatic political and religious confrontations that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth-century. (Please see cloth edition published 5/82.)

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"[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

"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