Settler and creole reenactment /

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"Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and t...

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Other Authors: Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-, Agnew, Vanessa, Spoth, Daniel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Reenactment history.
Subjects:
Historical reenactments > Social aspects.
Historical reenactments > Psychological aspects.
Colonization > Social aspects.
Colonization > Psychological aspects.
Colonies > Historiography.
Colonists > Historiography.
Creoles > Historiography.
Colonies in literature.
Colonists in literature.
Creoles in literature.
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Summary:"Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:xii, 340 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780230576063 (hbk.)
0230576060 (hbk.)