Sensory Worlds in Early America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 New Worlds for Historians -- 2 Brave New Worlds -- 3 Invisible Worlds -- 4 Other Worlds -- 5 A World of Difference -- Coda -- Notes -- Index.
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.
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Senses and sensation-United States-History. Senses and sensation-United States-Historiography. Perception-History. Perception-Historiography. Social psychology-United States-History. United States-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. United States-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775-Historiography. United States-Social conditions-To 1865.