Main entry:

Isaac, Rhys.

Title & Author:

The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 / by Rhys Isaac.

Publication:

Description:

xxxii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1983.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

080781489X
9780807814895
0807841161 (pbk.)
9780807841167 (pbk.)

Subject:

társadalomtörténet Egyesült Államok 18. sz.
Civilization.
Manners and customs.
Sociale geschiedenis.
Godsdienst.
Virginia Civilization 18th century.
Virginia Social life and customs To 1775.
Virginia Social life and customs 1775-1783.
Virginia Civilization.
Virginia történet 18. sz.
Virginie Mœurs et coutumes Jusqu'à 1775.
Virginie Civilisation.
Virginie Civilisation 18e siècle.
Virginie Mœurs et coutumes 1775-1783.
Virginia.
Virginia History Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
Virginia Social life and customs.
Possessing the Land Fields and Seasons Homeplaces: Quarters and Houses The Common Planter's Place The Gentleman's Seat Body and Climate Traveling Through the Landscape Religion and Life Experiences Rites of Passage House, Host and Hospitality Ceremonial Space at the Great House Humble Dwellings Celebration: The Dance Court Day The Ordinary Horse Races Cockpits Muster Field Election Day Experience of Community Social Mobility Values and Religion Literacy and Oral Culture From Folk to Genteel Culture The Authority of the Gentry Virginia on the Eve of Revolutions The Parsons' Cause Sources of Discord Recriminations: A House Divided The Appearance of a Counterculture Confrontations The Episcopacy Controversy Bishops and Fear of Tyrany Ecclesiatical Dicipline: A Perennial Problem The Menace of the "Anabaptists" Images of Authority and Social Order Divided Counsels on Toleration Epilogue Town Fathers and Reverend Scholars Divisive Controversies Mr. Henley's Quest for Patronage and Preferment A Heresy Hearing and Its Sequel Small World-Great Issues Media and Messages of Anxiety Dramatized Ideology A People Armed New Evangelical Stirring Patriots and New Lights Resonances Wartime Morale Collapse of Establishment and Attempts at Renewal Conflicting Symbols of the Social Order Jefferson's Bill: Assembly's Act The World New Lights Made Domesticity and Private Space The Quarter: Community Intensified Slavery becomes a Problem A New Metaphor of Social Order Westward Movement: The Individual in Persuit of Gain Community Diminished The Courthouse Change and Continuity.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115959
Call No.: PO2392; ID:95-B1035
Status: Available