Fear and the shaping of early American societies /
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2016.
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| Series: | Early American history series ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.