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Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Contributor(s): Eustace, Nicole (Author)

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 ISBN: 0807871982     ISBN-13: 9780807871980
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C
OUR PRICE: $51.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- History | Social History
Dewey: 973.311
LCCN: 2007040049
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.14" W x 8.94" L (1.84 lbs) 624 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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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 whites 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 transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America.

From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.


Contributor Bio(s): Eustace, Nicole: - Nicole Eustace is associate professor of history at New York University.
 
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