Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807846449 ISBN 13 : 9780807846445

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Synopsis

These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early American history, these leading scholars in the field extend their reach to literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, and material culture. The collection is organized into three parts--Histories of Self, Texts of Self, and Reflections on Defining Self. Individual essays examine the significance of dreams, diaries, and carved chests, murder and suicide, Indian kinship, and the experiences of African American sailors. Gathered in celebration of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's fiftieth anniversary, these imaginative inquiries will stimulate critical thinking and open new avenues of investigation on the forging of self-identity in early America. The contributors are W. Jeffrey Bolster, T. H. Breen, Elaine Forman Crane, Greg Dening, Philip Greven, Rhys Isaac, Kenneth A. Lockridge, James H. Merrell, Donna Merwick, Mary Beth Norton, Mechal Sobel, Alan Taylor, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Richard White.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ronald Hoffman is director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

Mechal Sobel is professor of history at the University of Haifa.

Fredrika J. Teute is the Institute's editor of publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807846449
• ISBN 13: 9780807846445
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 478
• Éditeur: Hoffman
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