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Author Crouch, David, author

Title Colonial psychosocial : reading William Lane / by David Crouch
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (194 pages)
Contents Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary A small, bespectacled man with impressive moustaches and a devastating way with words, William Lane was at first delighted with the pliant disposition of the society he found emerging in the colonies of Australia. The nascent nation was awash with radical ideas and inherited bigotries, but also obsessed with itself and uneasy about its own place and composition. To this combustible atmosphere, Lane contributed all the excesses of his blistering rhetoric and seductive hyperbole; he mesmerised his audience with all the things it feared. Colonial Psychosocial traverses the 'darkness' of colonial
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015)
Subject LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443872997
1443872997
1443867551
9781443867559
1322607788
9781322607788