The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790
by
Emory G. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
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...