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Rhys Isaac

Born

in Cape Town, South Africa

November 20, 1937

Died

October 06, 2010

Genre

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Rhys Llywelyn Isaac (20 November 1937 – 6 October 2010) was a South African-born Australian historian, who also worked in the United States.

Isaac and his twin brother Glynn were born in Cape Town, South Africa, to William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Leighton Isaac. Rhys Isaac was the 1959 Cape Province Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College (Oxford).

In 1963 he emigrated to Australia, where he taught at the University of Melbourne and later at La Trobe University (1971-91). He also was Emeritus Professor of American History at La Trobe University, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early American History at the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia.

In 1983, Rhys Isaac won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Transform ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 469 ratings · 28 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 3.87 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1982 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation 3.54 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Early America: The William and Mary Quarterly, 1943-1993 by Ronald Hoffman (Foreword), Michael McGiffen (Introduction), Perry Miller (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ethnographic method: An action approach it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worlds of Experience: Communities in Colonial Virginia (Foundations of America Series) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glynn Isaac and the search for human origins in Africa: Inaugural Glynn Isaac memorial lecture, 21st April 1993 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The act for establishing the freedom of religion remembered: The dissenters' Virginia heritage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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