Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

Name: Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
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ISBN: 9780807848142

ISBN-10: 080784814X

ISBN-13: 9780807848142

Edition: 1999

Authors: Rhys Isaac

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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.

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/27/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 492
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



The Setting and the Action


Preface to the New Paperback Edition


Introduction



Traditional Ways of Life



Prospects of Virginia: Overviews of the Landscape



Shapes in the Landscape: The Arrangement of Social Space



Figures in the Landscape: People and Environment



Church and Home: Celebrations of Life's Meanings



Occasions: Court Days, Race Meetings, Militia Musters, and Elections



Textures of Community: Mobility, Learning, Gentility, and Authority



Movements and Events



The Parson, the Squire - and the Upstart Dissenter



Popular Upsurge: The Challenge of the Baptists



Whither Virginia? Specters of Bishop and Sectary



"Transactions in the Steeple of Bruton": A Tableau of Cultural Provincialism



Political Enthusiasm and Continuing Revivalism



Revolutionary Settlement: Religion and the Forms of Community



Afterview



Changed Lives - Changed Landscapes


A Discourse on the Method: Action, Structure, and Meaning


Acknowledgments


Notes


About the Illustrations


Index