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Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies tracks the impact of fear and responses thereto on the social and political construction of 17th- and 18th-century America.
About the author
Lauric Henneton, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France). He is the author of
Histoire religieuse des États-Unis (Flammarion, 2012), has written numerous articles and book chapters on the geopolitics of seventeenth-century New England, and coedited three volumes on commemorations (2010), American founding myths and memory (2008), and the first French edition of William Bradford's
Of Plymouth Plantation (2004).
L.H. Roper, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor of History at the State University of New York--New Paltz. He is the author of
Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1614-1688 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming);
Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004);
The English Empire in America, 1602-1658: Beyond Jamestown (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009), and has also edited
The Torrid Zone: Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming); Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750 with B. Van Ruymbeke, (Brill, 2007) and The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley>
