Fear and the shaping of early American societies / edited by Lauric Henneton, L.H. Roper.
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 e...
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| Superior document: | Early American History Series, Volume 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American history series ;
Volume 4. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Lauric Henneton and L.H. Roper
- 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
- “Ffourty 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
- Index / Lauric Henneton and L.H. Roper.