Passion is the gale : emotion, power, and the coming of the American Revolution /
At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class white to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 17...
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press,
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