Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740-1789University Press of Kentucky, 1991年1月1日 - 228 頁 In the late 18th century, the Upper Valley of Virginia experienced a conflict between the elitist culture of the gentry and the more democratic values of the populace. Tillson addresses several major issues in historical scholarship on Virginia and the southern backcountry, focusing on changing political values in the late colonial and Revolutionary eras. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... 973.2 - dc20 91-8181 This book is printed on acid - free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials . For Babs and my parents Contents List of Map ,
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... American University , and the University of Tampa . At the University of Tampa , Martin Denoff and Stephen Magriby ... America , and the University of Tampa Faculty Development Fund helped finance my research . My parents have encouraged ...
... American University , and the University of Tampa . At the University of Tampa , Martin Denoff and Stephen Magriby ... America , and the University of Tampa Faculty Development Fund helped finance my research . My parents have encouraged ...
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... American Revolution challenged and altered that deferential culture . This study explores both these issues in the development of the upper , or southern , Valley of Virginia . Historians of eighteenth - century Virginia have long empha ...
... American Revolution challenged and altered that deferential culture . This study explores both these issues in the development of the upper , or southern , Valley of Virginia . Historians of eighteenth - century Virginia have long empha ...
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... America's war for independence inter- acted to transform this backcountry region's political culture . By creating tremendous demands for manpower and economic sup- port , the war effort led to greater discontent than ever before and ...
... America's war for independence inter- acted to transform this backcountry region's political culture . By creating tremendous demands for manpower and economic sup- port , the war effort led to greater discontent than ever before and ...
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... American Revolution have com- pellingly demonstrated , people's cultural values and expectations can influence their perceptions of the " real " world and , more im- portant , can lead them to transform that world . 14 Thus human cul ...
... American Revolution have com- pellingly demonstrated , people's cultural values and expectations can influence their perceptions of the " real " world and , more im- portant , can lead them to transform that world . 14 Thus human cul ...
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Land People Economy and Government | 5 |
The Political Culture of the Colonial Elite | 20 |
The Militia and Popular Localism | 29 |
The Roots of Backcountry Order | 48 |
Toward the Republic | 62 |
The Tory Challenge | 85 |
Finishing the Revolution | 99 |
John Stuarts History of the Greenbrier Valley | 111 |
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