num_pages: 491
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
titlecomplete: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
genres: History, School, Anthropology, American History, American Revolution, 18th Century, Academic, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 349
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History
publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press