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Title Through a glass darkly : reflections on personal identity in early America / edited by Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel & Fredrika J. Teute.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973 T531T    Check Shelf
Description xii, 464 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- Reflections on defining self / Greg Dening -- 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.
Subject 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, approximately 1600-1775 -- Congresses.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 -- Biography -- Congresses.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865 -- Congresses.
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775 -- Congresses.
Added Author Hoffman, Ronald, 1941-2018
Sobel, Mechal.
Teute, Fredrika J.
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
ISBN 0807823368 cloth alkaline paper
0807846457 paperback alkaline paper
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