| Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History Contributor(s): Greene, Jack P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813914086 ISBN-13: 9780813914084 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1992 Annotation: Imperatives, Behavior, and Identities looks at aspects of the formation and development of English or, after 1707, British-American cultural spaces during the colonial and Revolutionary eras. It focuses of the special character of those new and rapidly changing spaces as dependent and derivative entities on the far periphery of the established core culture in England. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Social Science |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 92-15422 |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 6.07" W x 9.04" (1.52 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities looks at aspects of the formation and development of English or, after 1707, British-American cultural spaces during the colonial and Revolutionary eras. It focuses on the special character of those new and rapidly changing spaces as dependent and derivative entities on the far periphery of the established core culture in England. Stressing the extent to which each of them was the product of a distinctive physical space and set of socio-economic and political circumstances affected emerging social priorities and operated to produce cultures that bth diverged sharply from that of Britain and need to be understood and analyzed in their own terms. |