In this Book
summary
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-12
- Chapter 1: A Troubled Gentry
- pp. 13-53
- Chapter 2: Beyond the Plantations
- pp. 54-100
- Chapter 4: The Scottish Merchants
- pp. 153-179
- Chapter 5: Controlling the Revolution
- pp. 180-226
- Chapter 6: The Evangelical Challenge
- pp. 227-262
- Chapter 7: The Preservation of Hegemony
- pp. 263-282
- Bibliography
- pp. 395-417
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813928517
Related ISBN
9780813928456
MARC Record
OCLC
755633557
Pages
432
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
