- Social life and customs, Civilization, Manners and customs, Virginia, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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.
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Earnest, grave, cool and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Rhys Isaac
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 451
- Publisher
- Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA., by University of North Carolina Press, W.W. Norton, University of North Carolina Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780807838600
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