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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 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.
Contributors are: Sarah Barber, Benjamin Carp, Leslie Choquette, Anne-Claire Faucquez, Lauric Henneton, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Susanne Lachenicht, Bertie Mandelblatt, Mark Meuwese, L. H. Roper, David L. Smith, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Christopher Vernon, and David Voorhees.
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.
Contributors are: Sarah Barber, Benjamin Carp, Leslie Choquette, Anne-Claire Faucquez, Lauric Henneton, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Susanne Lachenicht, Bertie Mandelblatt, Mark Meuwese, L. H. Roper, David L. Smith, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Christopher Vernon, and David Voorhees.
Price: $206.00
Pages: 10
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Early American History Series
Publication Date:
21 April 2016
ISBN: 9789004314733
Format: Hardcover
Lauric Henneton, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France). He is the author of Histoire religieuse des États-Unis (Flammarion, 2012), has written numerous articles and book chapters on the geopolitics of seventeenth-century New England, and coedited three volumes on commemorations (2010), American founding myths and memory (2008), and the first French edition of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (2004).
L.H. Roper, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor of History at the State University of New York—New Paltz. He is the author of Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1614-1688 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); The English Empire in America, 1602-1658: Beyond Jamestown (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009), and has also edited The Torrid Zone: Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming); Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750 with B. Van Ruymbeke, (Brill, 2007) and The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley with Jaap Jacobs (SUNY Press, 2014).
L.H. Roper, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor of History at the State University of New York—New Paltz. He is the author of Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1614-1688 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); The English Empire in America, 1602-1658: Beyond Jamestown (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009), and has also edited The Torrid Zone: Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming); Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750 with B. Van Ruymbeke, (Brill, 2007) and The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley with Jaap Jacobs (SUNY Press, 2014).