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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814887603321

Autore

Knott Sarah <1972->

Titolo

Sensibility and the American Revolution / / Sarah Knott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

979-88-908833-7-7

1-4696-0081-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

973.3/1

Soggetti

Sensitivity (Personality trait) - Social aspects - United States - History - 18th century

Sensitivity (Personality trait) - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century

Self-perception - United States - History - 18th century

Social interaction - United States - History - 18th century

Community life - United States - History - 18th century

Political culture - United States - History - 18th century

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects

United States Social life and customs 1775-1865

United States Politics and government 1775-1783

United States Politics and government 1783-1809

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: Transatlantic Conduits; CHAPTER 1 Print, Booksellers, and the Sentimental; CHAPTER 2 Medicine, Physicians, and the Nervous; PART II: American Circles; CHAPTER 3 Sentimental Coteries: A Quartet of Types; CHAPTER 4 The War for Independence; CHAPTER 5 Shaping the New Republic; PART III: Transatlantic Backlash; CHAPTER 6 Wars of Words: Radicalism, Youth, and Reaction; Epilogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y