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Sensory worlds of early America / Peter Charles Hoffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Senses and sensation--United States--History.
- Senses and sensation.
- Senses and sensation--United States--Historiography.
- Perception--History.
- Perception.
- Perception--Historiography.
- Social psychology--United States--History.
- Social psychology.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Imaginatively conceived, deeply informed, and elegantly written, Sensory Worlds of Early America convincingly establishes sensory experience as a legitimate object of historical inquiry and vividly brings America's colonial era to life.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8136-6
- OCLC:
- 70773957
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