Rhys Isaac
Biographic Data
| ID | 681486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhys Isaac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhys |
| FAMILY NAME | Isaac |
| SIGNATURE | ISAAC R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lighting the Fuse of Revolution in Virginia, May 1765: "Rereading the "Journal of a French Traveller in the Colonies
Greg Dening Remembered
Sex, Death, and Revolutions
On October I, 1792, a household of teenagers (headed by a married pair just out of their teens) set out to visit the home of another young couple. There were screams in the night, and, five months later, there was a murder trial. In a preliminary hearing, the court had to determine the credibility of evidence that infanticide had been committed by a young father on the offspring of an incestuous liaison with his even younger sister-in-law. The co…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America
Journal Article The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America. By Michal J. Rozbicki. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xiv, 221 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-1750-6.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 756–757, ht…
William Byrd II and His Lost History: Engravings of the Americas
Journal Article William Byrd II and His Lost History: Engravings of the Americas. By Margaret Beck Pritchard and Virginia Lascara Sites (Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993. xviii, 192 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87935-088-1.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pag…
Geschichte und Anthropologie oder: Macht und (Be-)Deutung
Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789
Journal Article Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607–1789. By Jeffrey H. Richards. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. xxii + 335 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8223-1107-0.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 634, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740-1789
Journal Article Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740–1789. By Albert H. Tillson, Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. x + 228 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8131-1749-6.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac La Trobe University, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 629–630, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Early American Taverns: For the Entertainment of Friends and Strangers
The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson
The New England Mentalite: Ecologies, Structures, and Longues Durees from Algonquian to Yankee
A Scenario for the Past: Colonial Virginia in History and Ethnography
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Journal Article The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 and Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680–1810 Get access Isaac Rhys, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1982. xxxii, 451 pp. $29.50.Roeber A. G., Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Cu…
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
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. |Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in History, this book recreates…
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Inescapable Circularity: History and the Human Condition in Revolutionary Virginia
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Journal Article The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. By Rhys Isaac. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xxxii + 451 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, notes, and index. $29.50.) Get access David Ammerman David Ammerman Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 963–964, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901215 Pu…
The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society
Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century-a pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documents-among them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters, memoirs, and autobiographies-as well as on the insights of such disciplines as psychology, demography, and anthropology, Daniel Blake Smith examines f…
Ethnographic Method in History: An Action Approach
Cultural Conflict and Social Change in the Revolutionary South: Lunenburg County, Virginia
Idleness Ethic and the Liberty of Anglo-Americans
Dramatizing the Ideology of Revolution: Popular Mobilization in Virginia, 1774 to 1776
W ,trE are brought abruptly into the presence of the Revolution by this cryptic report of a trial in northern Virginia during the last months of King George's reign in America. No other record of this court of oyer and terminer under the king's commission survives, and we shall never know the answers to most of the questions that rise in our minds as we read the newspaper report. We do not even know the name and fortunes of the not-so-humble slav…
The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists' Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765 to 1775
A N intense struggle for allegiance had developed in the Virginia countryside during the decade before the Revolution. Two eyewitness accounts may open to us the nature of the conflict. First, a scene vividly remembered and described by the Reverend James Ireland etches in sharp profile the postures of the forces in contest. As a young man Ireland, who was a propertyless schoolmaster of genteel origin, had cut a considerable figure in Frederick C…
Religion and Authority: Problems of the Anglican Establishment in Virginia in the Era of the Great Awakening and the Parsons' Cause
Rhys Isaac, Religion and Authority: Problems of the Anglican Establishment in Virginia in the Era of the Great Awakening and the Parsons' Cause, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1, Chesapeake Society (Jan., 1973), pp. 3-36
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Journal Article The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. By Rhys Isaac. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xxxii + 451 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, notes, and index. $29.50.) Get access David Ammerman David Ammerman Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 963–964, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901215 Pu…
Early American Taverns: For the Entertainment of Friends and Strangers
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
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. |Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in History, this book recreates…
Dramatizing the Ideology of Revolution: Popular Mobilization in Virginia, 1774 to 1776
W ,trE are brought abruptly into the presence of the Revolution by this cryptic report of a trial in northern Virginia during the last months of King George's reign in America. No other record of this court of oyer and terminer under the king's commission survives, and we shall never know the answers to most of the questions that rise in our minds as we read the newspaper report. We do not even know the name and fortunes of the not-so-humble slav…
A Scenario for the Past: Colonial Virginia in History and Ethnography
Samuel Davies, Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia
Religion and Authority: Problems of the Anglican Establishment in Virginia in the Era of the Great Awakening and the Parsons' Cause
Rhys Isaac, Religion and Authority: Problems of the Anglican Establishment in Virginia in the Era of the Great Awakening and the Parsons' Cause, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1, Chesapeake Society (Jan., 1973), pp. 3-36
Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists' Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765 to 1775
A N intense struggle for allegiance had developed in the Virginia countryside during the decade before the Revolution. Two eyewitness accounts may open to us the nature of the conflict. First, a scene vividly remembered and described by the Reverend James Ireland etches in sharp profile the postures of the forces in contest. As a young man Ireland, who was a propertyless schoolmaster of genteel origin, had cut a considerable figure in Frederick C…
Idleness Ethic and the Liberty of Anglo-Americans
Dramatizing the Ideology of Revolution: Popular Mobilization in Virginia, 1774 to 1776
W ,trE are brought abruptly into the presence of the Revolution by this cryptic report of a trial in northern Virginia during the last months of King George's reign in America. No other record of this court of oyer and terminer under the king's commission survives, and we shall never know the answers to most of the questions that rise in our minds as we read the newspaper report. We do not even know the name and fortunes of the not-so-humble slav…
Ethnographic Method in History: An Action Approach
Cultural Conflict and Social Change in the Revolutionary South: Lunenburg County, Virginia
The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society
Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century-a pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documents-among them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters, memoirs, and autobiographies-as well as on the insights of such disciplines as psychology, demography, and anthropology, Daniel Blake Smith examines f…
Inescapable Circularity: History and the Human Condition in Revolutionary Virginia
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Journal Article The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. By Rhys Isaac. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xxxii + 451 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, notes, and index. $29.50.) Get access David Ammerman David Ammerman Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 963–964, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901215 Pu…
Early American Taverns: For the Entertainment of Friends and Strangers
The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson
The New England Mentalite: Ecologies, Structures, and Longues Durees from Algonquian to Yankee
A Scenario for the Past: Colonial Virginia in History and Ethnography
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Journal Article The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 and Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680–1810 Get access Isaac Rhys, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1982. xxxii, 451 pp. $29.50.Roeber A. G., Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Cu…
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
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. |Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in History, this book recreates…
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740-1789
Journal Article Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740–1789. By Albert H. Tillson, Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. x + 228 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8131-1749-6.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac La Trobe University, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 629–630, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789
Journal Article Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607–1789. By Jeffrey H. Richards. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. xxii + 335 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8223-1107-0.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 634, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
William Byrd II and His Lost History: Engravings of the Americas
Journal Article William Byrd II and His Lost History: Engravings of the Americas. By Margaret Beck Pritchard and Virginia Lascara Sites (Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993. xviii, 192 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87935-088-1.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pag…
Geschichte und Anthropologie oder: Macht und (Be-)Deutung
The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America
Journal Article The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America. By Michal J. Rozbicki. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xiv, 221 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-1750-6.) Get access Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 756–757, ht…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
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