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Rhys Llywelyn Isaac

リース・リウェリン・アイザック

Rīsu Riwerin Aizakku

別名: Rhys Isaac / Rhys L. Isaac

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1937-11-20 (Cape Town, South Africa)
死没
2010-10-06 (Blairgowrie, Victoria, Australia) 72歳
国籍
South African, Australian
言語
English
宗教
Unknown
居住地歴
Cape Town, South Africa → Oxford, United Kingdom → Melbourne, Australia → Williamsburg, Virginia, United States → Blairgowrie, Victoria, Australia

経歴

職業
Historian, Professor of American history
活動期間
1963年〜2010年
所属
University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, College of William & Mary

学歴

University of Cape Town
Department of History
学位: B.A., M.A.
期間: 1950年代
国: South Africa
Balliol College, University of Oxford
History
学位: Ph.D.
期間: 1959-1962
卒業年: 1962
国: United Kingdom
Cape Province Rhodes Scholar

受賞歴

Pulitzer Prize for History
1983
対象作品: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
部門: History
主催: Columbia University
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

1982年 History of colonial America

A detailed study of the religious and cultural transformation of Virginia society between 1740 and 1790. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Great AwakeningSocial changeColonial life

Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation

2004年 American Revolutionary history

Uses the diary of Virginia planter Landon Carter to explore revolution and rebellion on a Virginia plantation.

American RevolutionSlaveryPlantation society

健康

  • Cancer
    2000年代後半
    Cause of death.

評価・遺産

South African-born Australian historian, the first and only Australian to win the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1983. Specialized in the social history of colonial Virginia.

豆知識

  • Had a twin brother, the archaeologist Glynn Isaac.
  • Parents were professional botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leighton.