Accommodating Revolutions: Virginia's Northern Neck in an Era of Transformations, 1760-1810
Tillson, Albert H., Jr.
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hardcover. Addresses a controversy of long standing among historians of eighteenth-century America and Virginia - the extent to which internal conflict and/or consensus characterized the society of the Revolutionary era. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 771.
Accommodating Revolutions addresses a controversy of long standing among historians of eighteenth-century America and Virginia - the extent to which internal conflict and/or consensus characterized the society of the Revolutionary era. In particular, it emphasizes the complex and often self-defeating actions and decisions of dissidents and other non-elite groups. By focusing on a small but significant region, Tillson elucidates the multiple and interrelated sources of conflict that beset Revolutionary Virginia, but also explains why in the end so little changed. In the Northern Neck - the six-country portion of Virginia's Tidewater lying between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers - Tillson ... Read more
Accommodating Revolutions addresses a controversy of long standing among historians of eighteenth-century America and Virginia - the extent to which internal conflict and/or consensus characterized the society of the Revolutionary era. In particular, it emphasizes the complex and often self-defeating actions and decisions of dissidents and other non-elite groups. By focusing on a small but significant region, Tillson elucidates the multiple and interrelated sources of conflict that beset Revolutionary Virginia, but also explains why in the end so little changed. In the Northern Neck - the six-country portion of Virginia's Tidewater lying between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers - Tillson ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928456
SKU
V9780813928456
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About Tillson, Albert H., Jr.
Albert H. Tillson Jr. is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tampa and the author of Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740-1789.
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