Accommodating Revolutions: Virginia's Northern Neck in an Era of Transformations, 1760–1810. By Albert H. Tillson Jr. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Pp. viii, 423. $45.00.)

Abstract

This study examines the ebb and flow of social, economic, and political currents on Virginia's Northern Neck—the peninsula bounded by the Potomac River to the north and the Rappahannock River to th...