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Through a glass darkly reflections on personal identity in early America /

Other Authors: Hoffman, Ronald, 1941-2018., Sobel, Mechal., Teute, Fredrika J., Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
Physical Description: xii, 464 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Group identity -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Group identity -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Congresses.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography -- Congresses.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865 -- Congresses.
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775 -- Congresses.
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Histories of self / Greg Dening -- "Cast of his countenance": reading Andrew Montour / James H. Merrell -- Communal definitions of gendered identity in seventeenth-century English America / Mary Beth Norton -- Making history: the force of public opinion and the last years of slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts / T.H. Breen -- "Unhappy Stephen Arnold": an episode of murder and penitence in the early Republic / Alan Taylor -- Suicide of a notary: language, personal identity, and conquest in Colonial New York / Donna Merwick -- Texts of self / Greg Dening -- Revolution in selves: black and white inner aliens / Mechal Sobel -- Stories and constructions of identity: folk tellings and diary inscriptions in Revolutionary Virginia / Rhys Isaac -- Hannah Barnard's cupboard: female property and identity in eighteenth-century New England / Dr Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Colonial self-fashioning: paradoxes and pathologies in the construction of genteel identity in eighteenth-century America / Kenneth A. Lockridge -- Self shaped and misshaped: The Protestant temperament reconsidered / Philip Greven -- "I have suffered much today": the defining force of pain in Early America / Elaine Forman Crane -- "Although I am dead, I am not entirely dead. I have left a second of myself": constructing self and persons on the middle ground of Early America / Richard White -- Inner diaspora: black sailors making selves / W. Jeffrey Bolster.
Physical Description: xii, 464 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0807823368
0807846457

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