Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier 1740-1789 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813155173)

In the late eighteenth century, the Upper Valley of Virginia experienced a conflict between the elitist culture of the gentry and the more republican values of the populace. Albert Tillson addresses here several major issues in historical scholarship on Virginia and the southern backcountry, focusing on changing political values in the late colonial and Revolutionary eras. In the colonial period, Tillson shows, the Upper Valley's deferential culture was much less pervasive than has often been su

Author: Albert H. Jr. Tillson
ISBN-10: 0813155177
ISBN-13: 9780813155173
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d