The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (492 pages)
- Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series .
- Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- The Setting and the Action -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- PART I: TRADITIONAL WAYS OF LIFE -- 1. Prospects of Virginia: Overviews of the Landscape -- 2. Shapes in the Landscape: The Arrangement of Social Space -- Possessing the Land -- Fields and Seasons -- Homeplaces: Quarters and Houses -- The Common Planter's Place -- The Gentleman's Seat -- 3. Figures in the Landscape: People and Environment -- Body and Climate -- Traveling through the Landscape -- 4. Church and Home: Celebrations of Life's Meanings -- Religion and Life Experiences -- Rites of Passage -- House, Host, and Hospitality -- Ceremonial Space at the Great House -- Humble Dwellings -- Celebration: The Dance -- 5. Occasions: Court Days, Race Meetings, Militia Musters, and Elections -- Court Day -- The Ordinary -- Horse Races -- Cockpits -- Muster Field -- Election Day -- 6. Textures of Community: Mobility, Learning, Gentility, and Authority -- Experience of Community -- Social Mobility -- Values and Religion -- Literacy and Oral Culture -- From Folk to Genteel Culture -- The Authority of the Gentry -- Virginia on the Eve of Revolutions -- PART II: MOVEMENTS AND EVENTS -- 7. The Parson, the Squire-and the Upstart Dissenter -- The Parsons' Cause -- Sources of Discord -- Recriminations: A House Divided -- 8. Popular Upsurge: The Challenge of the Baptists -- The Appearance of a Counterculture -- Confrontations -- 9. Whither Virginia? Specters of Bishop and Sectary -- The Episcopacy Controversy -- Bishops and Fear of Tyranny -- Ecclesiastical Discipline: A Perennial Problem -- The Menace of the "Anabaptists -- Images of Authority and Social Order -- Divided Counsels on Toleration -- Epilogue -- 10. "Transactions in the Steeple of Bruton": A Tableau of Cultural Provincialism -- Town Fathers and Reverend Scholars -- Divisive Controversies. Mr. Henley's Quest for Patronage and Preferment -- A Heresy Hearing and Its Sequel -- Small World-Great Issues -- 11. Political Enthusiasm and Continuing Revivalism -- Media and Messages of Anxiety -- Dramatized Ideology -- A People Armed -- New Evangelical Stirring -- Patriots and New Lights -- Resonances -- 12. Revolutionary Settlement: Religion and the Forms of Community -- Wartime Morale -- Collapse of Establishment and Attempts at Renewal -- Conflicting Symbols of the Social Order -- Jefferson's Bill: Assembly's Act -- PART III: AFTER VIEW -- 13. Changed Lives-Changed Landscapes -- The World the New Lights Made -- Domesticity and Private Space -- The Quarter: Community Intensified -- Slavery Becomes a Problem -- A New Metaphor of Social Order -- Westward Movement: The Individual in Pursuit of Gain -- Community Diminished -- The Courthouse -- Change and Continuity -- A Discourse on the Method: Action, Structure, and Meaning -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Illustrations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
9781469600710
Virginia-Civilization-18th century. Virginia-Social life and customs-To 1775. Virginia-Social life and customs-1775-1783.