Cultures and identities in colonial British America
Cultures and identities in colonial British America
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Environment and Identity -- 1 The Nature of Slavery: Environmental Disorder and Slave Agency in Colonial South Carolina -- 2 ""For Want of a Social Set"": Networks and Social Interaction in the Lower Cape Fear Region of North Carolina…
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America
By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.
In this volume, J.H. Elliott gathers writings that reflect his recent research and thinking on politics, art, culture, and ideas in Europe and the colonial worlds between 1500 and 1800.
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to …