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050 00 $aF229$b.I8 1999
100 1 $aIsaac, Rhys.
245 14 $aThe transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 /$cby Rhys Isaac.
260 0 $aChapel Hill :$bPublished for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by University of North Carolina Press,$cc1982.
300 $axxxii, 451 p. :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTRADITIONAL 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.
520 $aIn 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.
651 0 $aVirginia$xCivilization.
651 0 $aVirginia$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775.
691 9 $aVirginia$xEthnography.$5toz
691 9 $aVirginia$xSociology$xHistory.$5toz
651 0 $aVirginia$xCivilization$y18th century.
651 0 $aVirginia$xSocial life and customs$y1775-1783.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aIsaac, Rhys.$tTransformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.$dChapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA., by University of North Carolina Press, c1982$w(OCoLC)572278620
776 08 $iOnline version:$aIsaac, Rhys.$tTransformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.$dChapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA., by University of North Carolina Press, c1982$w(OCoLC)607827811
776 08 $iOnline version:$aIsaac, Rhys.$tTransformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.$dChapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA., by University of North Carolina Press, ©1982$w(OCoLC)572278620
776 08 $iOnline version:$aIsaac, Rhys.$tTransformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.$dChapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA., by University of North Carolina Press, ©1982$w(OCoLC)607827811
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