Fear and the shaping of early American societies
"Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies is the first collection of essays to argue that fear permeated the colonial societies of 17th- and 18th-century America and to analyse its impact on the political decision-making processes from a variety of angles and locations. Indeed, the thir...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Early American history series
volume 4 |
| Schlagworte: |
Geschichte 1700-1800
> Geschichte 1600-1700
> Geschichte 1600-1800
> Geschichte
> Gesellschaft
> Kolonie
> Politik
> Fear
> Social aspects
> Political aspects
> Colonists
> History
> Kolonisierung
> Furcht
> Amerika
> Europa
> America
> Social conditions
> Politics and government
> Europe
> Colonies
> Aufsatzsammlung
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies is the first collection of essays to argue that fear permeated the colonial societies of 17th- and 18th-century America and to analyse its impact on the political decision-making processes from a variety of angles and locations. Indeed, the thirteen essays range from Canada to the Chesapeake, from New England to the Caribbean and from the Carolina Backcountry to Dutch Brazil. This volume assesses the typically American nature of fear factors and the responses they elicited in a transatlantic context. The essays further explore how the European colonists handled such challenges as Indian conspiracies, slave revolts, famine, 'popery' and tyranny as well as werewolves and a dragon to build cohesive societies far from the metropolis"...Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | X, 313 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9789004314733 978-90-04-31473-3 9789004314740 978-90-04-31474-0 |