Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies.

Intro -- Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Adjusting to Fear in Early America -- 1: From Sea Monsters and Savages to Sorcerers and Satan: A History of Fear in New France -- 2: Fortune's Frowns and the Finger of God: Deciphering Fear in the Caribbean (c. 1600-c. 1720) -- 3: Fear and the Genesis of the English Empire in America -- 4: Fear, Uncertainty, and Violence in the Dutch Colonization of Brazil (1624-1662) -- 5: Rumors, Uncertainty and Decision-Making in the Greater Long Island Sound (1652-1654) -- 6: "Our fears surpass our hopes": Virginian Reactions to the Execution of Charles i (1649-1652) -- 7: "Ffourty thousand to cutt the Protestants throats": The Irish Threat in the Chesapeake and the West Indies (1620-1700) -- 8: "Imprisoning Persons at their Pleasure": The Anti-Catholic Hysteria of 1689 in the Middle Colonies -- 9: "A Bloody Conspiracy": Race, Power and Religion in New York's 1712 Slave Insurrection -- 10 Fear and the Making of a Huguenot Identity (1685-1750) -- 11: "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 -- 12: "The Inhabitants of the Province had been frequently Alarmed": Fear and Rumor in the Colonial Southeastern Backcountry (1754-1765) -- 13: "The Unpleasing Part of the Drama": Fear, Devastation, and the Civilian Experience of the Revolutionary War -- Index.

Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies tracks the impact of fear and responses thereto on the social and political construction of 17th- and 18th-century America.

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