Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
One of the bestand most provocativebooks written on colonial Anglo-America over the past decade.
Times Literary Supplement
Review
[A] gracefully written evocation of eighteenth-century Virginia culture.
American Historical Review
Synopsis
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in History, this book recreates and analyzes the dramatic political and religious confrontations that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth-century.