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Rhys Isaac and history's Uneasy Kingdom: a review essay.(Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation)(Book review)
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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation. By Rhys Isaac. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 423. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-518908-6; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-515926-8.)
RHYS ISAAC CLOSED HIS PULITZER PRIZE--WINNING THE TRANSFORMATION of Virginia, 1740-1790 with a meditation entitled "Change and Continuity" that discussed how "[m]uch remained the same" (p. 320) in a Virginia that had been transforme...
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