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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790

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Country
  
United States

Pages
  
462

Originally published
  
1982

Page count
  
462

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Publication date
  
1982

ISBN
  
978-0807848142

Author
  
Rhys Isaac

Genre
  
History

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Publisher
  
University of North Carolina Press

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for History

Similar
  
Pulitzer Prize for History winners, Virginia books, History books

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 is a 1982 nonfiction book by Australian historian Rhys Isaac, published by University of North Carolina Press. The book chronicles the religious and political changes over a half-century of Virginian history, particularly the shift from "the great cultural metaphor of patriarchy" to a greater emphasis on communalism.

The Transformation of Virginia was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for History.

References

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 Wikipedia