A "topping people"
Subtitle: the rise and decline of Virginia's old political elite, 1680-1790
By: Emory G. Evans.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780813927909
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences) -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century; Elite (Social sciences) -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century; Politicians -- Virginia -- Biography; Landowners -- Virginia -- Biography; Gentry -- Virginia -- Biography; Upper class -- Virginia -- Biography; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Virginia -- Politics and government -- To 1775; Virginia -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Virginia -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: This book is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. The author studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as Speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Politics, 1700-1737; title: The economy; title: Society, 1700-1776.