Unmoored
Schwartz, Ana
| Autor: | Schwartz, Ana |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | History - U.S. |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 10.01.2023 |
| EAN: | 9781469671772 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 296 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Omohundro Institute and Unc Press |
| Untertitel: | The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America |
Produktinformationen "Unmoored"
"New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a social process. It fueled examinations of inner lives, governed behavior, and provided a standard against which both could be judged. But as Ana Schwartz demonstrates, if sincerity promised much, it often delivered more: it bred shame and resentment among the English settlers and, all too often, extraordinary violence toward their Algonquian neighbors and the captured Africans who lived among them. Populating her 'city on a hill' with the stock characters of Puritan studies as well as obscure actors, Schwartz breathes new life into our understanding of colonial New England"--
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