Passion is the gale
Subtitle: emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution
By: Nicole Eustace.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 613
ISBN-13: 9780807831687
Subjects: Emotions -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
Description: At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class white to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.