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Sensory worlds in early America / Peter Charles Hoffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social psychology.
- History.
- Perception.
- Historiography.
- Senses and sensation.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Historiography.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- Social conditions.
- Senses and sensation--United States--History.
- Senses and sensation--United States--Historiography.
- Perception--History.
- Perception--Historiography.
- Social psychology--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this ambitious new work, Peter Charles Hoffer presents a "sensory history" of early North America, offering a bold new understanding of the role that sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch played in shaping the lives of Europeans, Indians, and Africans in the New World. Reconstructing the most ephemeral aspects of America's colonial past, Hoffer explores the impact of sensuous experiences on human thought and action. He traces the effect sensation and perception had on the course of events conventionally attributed to deeper cultural and material circumstances.
- Contents:
- New worlds for historians : the realm of the senses
- Brave new worlds : English-Indian encounters
- Invisible worlds : Indian wars and witchcraft crises
- Other worlds : slave revolts and religious awakenings
- A world of difference : the revolution of the senses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801873533
- OCLC:
- 50919844
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