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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Henneton, Lauric (Editor ), Roper, L. H. (Louis H.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Early American history series ; v. 4.
Temas:
To 1810
Fear > Social aspects > America > History.
Fear > Political aspects > America > History.
Colonists > America > History.
Peur > Aspect social > Amérique > Histoire.
Peur > Aspect politique > Amérique > Histoire.
Colons (Colonisation) > Amérique > Histoire.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
Colonists.
Fear > Political aspects.
Fear > Social aspects.
Politics and government.
Politics and government > Decision making.
Social conditions.
America > History > To 1810.
America > Social conditions.
America > Politics and government.
America > Politics and government > Decision making.
Europe > Colonies > America > History > 17th century.
Europe > Colonies > America > History > 18th century.
Amérique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
Amérique > Politique et gouvernement.
Amérique > Politique et gouvernement > Prise de décision.
America.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Adjusting to fear in early America / Lauric Henneton
  • From sea monsters and savages to sorcerers and Satan : a history of fear in New France / Leslie Choquette
  • Fortune's frowns and the finger of God : deciphering fear in the Caribbean (c. 1600-c. 1720) / Sarah Barber
  • Fear and the genesis of the English Empire in America / L.H. Roper
  • Fear, uncertainty, and violence in the Dutch colonization of Brazil (1624-1662) / Mark Meuwese
  • Rumors, uncertainty and decision-making in the greater Long Island Sound (1652-1654) / Lauric Henneton
  • "Our fears surpass our hopes" : Virginian reactions to the execution of Charles I (1649-1652) / David L. Smith
  • "Fourty thousand to cutt the Protestants throats": the Irish threat in the Chesapeake and the West Indies (1620-1700) / Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
  • "Imprisoning persons at their pleasure" : the anti-Catholic hysteria of 1689 in the Middle Colonies / David William Voorhees
  • "A bloody conspiracy" : race, power and religion in New York's 1712 slave insurrection / Anne-Claire Faucquez
  • Fear and the making of a Huguenot identity (1685-1750) / Susanne Lachenicht
  • "A land where hunger is in gold and famine is in opulence" : plantation slavery, island ecology, and the fear of famine in the French Caribbean / Bertie Mandelblatt
  • "The inhabitants of the province had been frequently alarmed" : fear and rumor in the colonial Southeastern Backcountry (1754-1765) / Christopher Vernon
  • "The unpleasing part of the drama" : fear, devastation, and the civilian experience of the Revolutionary War / Benjamin L. Carp.

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