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A "Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790
Emory G. Evans
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Description for A "Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790
Hardcover. Presents a comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. This title studies 21 families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. It provides a study of the way families came to gain and, eventually; lose power in this progressive period in American history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 figures, 1 map, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
A Topping People is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names - Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few - are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was ... Read more
A Topping People is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names - Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few - are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927909
SKU
V9780813927909
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About Emory G. Evans
Emory G. Evans is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Reviews for A "Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790
I know of no account of the rise and fall of the Virginia elite that is so encyclopedic in scope. Emory Evans draws from many published but relatively obscure materials and has apparently read every relevant publication. In short, his research fairly merits the term prodigious - the book represents a lifetime of work. Future students of Virginia history will ... Read more