Landon Carter''s Uneasy Kingdom - Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation

Zusatztext "Landon Carter's diary is an unedited literary masterpiece full of Faulknerian stories. Now it has found a worthy editor and commentator in Rhys Isaac, a great storyteller in his own right. The result is a fascinating tale of public storms and personal furies that illuminates not only the dying world of the eighteenth century slaveholder but the dawning age of democratic revolution. Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom is itself a literary and historical masterpiece." --John Gillis, Rutgers University, author of A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Legenc and the Quest for Family Values Informationen zum Autor Rhys Isaac is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of William and Mary and a Research Associate of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. Klappentext A Pulitzer-Prize winning historian's brilliant reconstruction of a Virginia planter's world based on his diary. Zusammenfassung A Pulitzer-Prize winning historian's brilliant reconstruction of a Virginia planter's world based on his diary.

Product details

• Authors: Rhys Isaac, Rhys (Professor of History Isaac
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780195189087
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518908-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Virginia, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599