The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 write by Rhys Isaac. This book was released on 2012-12-01. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Great Awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790
The Great Awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790 write by Wesley Marsh Gewehr. This book was released on 1965. The Great Awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom write by Rhys Isaac. This book was released on 2005-09-29. Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this long-awaited work, Isaac mines the diary of a Revolutionary War-era Virginia planter--and many other sources--to reconstruct his interior world as it plunged into turmoil.
Forced Founders
Forced Founders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forced Founders write by Woody Holton. This book was released on 2011-01-20. Forced Founders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire. Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.
Fatal Revolutions
Fatal Revolutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fatal Revolutions write by Christopher P. Iannini. This book was released on 2013-03-12. Fatal Revolutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. Iannini argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas. In fact, eighteenth-century natural history as a literary genre largely took its shape from its practice in the Caribbean, an oft-studied region that was a prime source of wealth for all of Europe and the Americas. The formal evolution of colonial prose narrative, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged necessarily from within the context of Atlantic slavery and the production of tropical commodities. As he reestablishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing the moral implications of colonial slavery.
