Annal:1983 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1983. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
- 1983 Pulitzer–History winner
- Score: 10.33
Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations—primarily religious and political—that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.
