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Paperback Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution Book

ISBN: 0807871982

ISBN13: 9780807871980

Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution

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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 whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions...

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