Sensory Worlds in Early America

Informationen zum Autor Peter Charles Hoffer is a distinguished research professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the author of many books, including Sensory Worlds in Early America and Law and People in Colonial America . Klappentext In this ambitious new work, Peter Charles Hoffer presents a "sensory history" of early North America, offering a bold new understanding of the role that sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch played in shaping the lives of Europeans, Indians, and Africans in the New World. Reconstructing the most ephemeral aspects of America's colonial past, Hoffer explores the impact of sensuous experiences on human thought and action. He traces the effect sensation and perception had on the course of events conventionally attributed to deeper cultural and material circumstances. Zusammenfassung Imaginatively conceived! deeply informed! and elegantly written! Sensory Worlds of Early America convincingly establishes sensory experience as a legitimate object of historical inquiry and vividly brings America's colonial era to life.

About the author

Peter Charles Hoffer is a distinguished research professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the author of many books, including Sensory Worlds in Early America and Law and People in Colonial America.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Charles Hoffer, Peter Charles (Research Professor of Histo Hoffer, Peter Charles (Research Professor of History Hoffer, Hoffer Peter Charles
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2006
• EAN: 9780801883927
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8392-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Historical Theology