Volume 29, Number 21 & 22 · January 20, 1983
The Fall of the Gentry
By Edmund S. Morgan
The Transformation of Virginia: 1740-1790
by Rhys Isaac
University of North Carolina Press, 451 pp., $29.50
It would be hard not to like this book. It places familiar events in new perspectives. It uses new techniques for making the past surrender meanings not previously available. It gives the reader a visual experience missing in most historical works by using illustrations as part of the argument. Not since that forgotten classic The Wind that Swept Mexico by Anita Brenner and George R. Leighton[1] have I seen illustrations so effectively combined with text.
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