Intellectual life in the Colonial South : 1585-1763 / . Volumes 1-3 / by Richard Beale Davis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145326703321
• Autore: Davis Richard Beale
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newfound Press, 1978; Knoxville : , : University of Tennessee Press, , c1978
• ISBN: 9780870492105 (hardback)
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (488 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 975/.01
• Soggetti: United States Local History; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology; Southern States Intellectual life To 1775
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Vol. 1. Promotion, discovery, and history ; The Indian as image and factor in Southern colonial life ; Formal education, institutional and individual -- ; Vol. 2. Books, libraries, reading, and printing ; Religion: established, evangelical, and individual ; The sermon and the religious tract ; Science and technology, including agriculture -- ; Vol. 3. The fine arts in the life of the Southern colonist ; Literature, principally belletristic ; The public mind: politics and economics, law and oratory.