Background
Isaac, Rhys Llywelyn was born on November 20, 1937 in Cape Town, Republic South Africa. Son of William Edwyn and Frances Margaret (Leighton) Isaac. arrived in Australia, 1963.
(In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes...)
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080784814X/?tag=2022091-20
(In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes...)
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393956938/?tag=2022091-20
Isaac, Rhys Llywelyn was born on November 20, 1937 in Cape Town, Republic South Africa. Son of William Edwyn and Frances Margaret (Leighton) Isaac. arrived in Australia, 1963.
Bachelor, University Cape Town, 1958. Master of Arts, University Oxford, England, 1965. Bachelor, Oxon University, 1962.
Isaac earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Cape Town. In 1959 he was the Cape Province Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College (Oxford), earning his Doctor of Philosophy in 1962. In 1963 Isaac emigrated to Australia, where he taught at the University of Melbourne, and later at Louisiana Trobe University (1971-1991), where he was Emeritus Professor of American History.
In 1975 he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early American History at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Isaac died at his home in Blairgowrie, Victoria, Australia, on 6 October 2010, aged 72, from undisclosed causes.
(In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes...)
(In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes...)
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In 2004 Isaac published Landon Carter"s Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation, which made use of the exemplary diary of a Virginian landholder and member of the House of Burgesses.
Married Colleen Margaret Malherbe, December 29, 1962. Children: Megan Frances, Lyned Vivienne.