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- catalog abstract ""In this book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian, as he unearths - in unexpected places - fragments of evidence that help us probe the interior lives of people from the faraway past." "The earliest settlers lived in a traditional world of natural cycles that shaped their behavior: day and night; seasonal rhythms; the lunar cycle; the life cycle itself. Indeed, so basic were these elements that "almost no one felt a need to comment on them." Yet he finds cyclical patterns - in the seasonal foods they ate, in the spike in marriages following the autumn harvest. Witchcraft cases reveal the different emotional reactions to day versus night, as accidental mishaps in the light become fearful nighttime mysteries. During the transitional world of the American Revolution, people began to see their society in newer terms but seemed unable or unwilling to come to terms with that novelty. Americans became new, Demos points out, before they fully understood what it meant. Their cyclical frame of reference was coming unmoored, giving way to a linear world view in early nineteenth-century America that is neatly captured by Kentucky doctor Daniel Drake's description of the chronography of his life."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Shape of life in early America".
- catalog contributor b13161078.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1783-1865.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs To 1775.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In this book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian, as he unearths - in unexpected places - fragments of evidence that help us probe the interior lives of people from the faraway past."".
- catalog description ""The earliest settlers lived in a traditional world of natural cycles that shaped their behavior: day and night; seasonal rhythms; the lunar cycle; the life cycle itself. Indeed, so basic were these elements that "almost no one felt a need to comment on them." Yet he finds cyclical patterns - in the seasonal foods they ate, in the spike in marriages following the autumn harvest. Witchcraft cases reveal the different emotional reactions to day versus night, as accidental mishaps in the light become fearful nighttime mysteries. During the transitional world of the American Revolution, people began to see their society in newer terms but seemed unable or unwilling to come to terms with that novelty.".
- catalog description "Americans became new, Demos points out, before they fully understood what it meant. Their cyclical frame of reference was coming unmoored, giving way to a linear world view in early nineteenth-century America that is neatly captured by Kentucky doctor Daniel Drake's description of the chronography of his life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [87]-96) and index.".
- catalog description "The traditional world and the logic of circularity -- The transitional world and the power of novelty -- The modern world and the rise of the linear.".
- catalog extent "xi, 98 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Circles and lines.".
- catalog identifier "0674013247 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Circles and lines.".
- catalog isPartOf "The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; 2002".
- catalog isPartOf "William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; 2002.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Circles and lines.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1783-1865.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs To 1775.".
- catalog subject "973 22".
- catalog subject "E162 .D46 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "The traditional world and the logic of circularity -- The transitional world and the power of novelty -- The modern world and the rise of the linear.".
- catalog title "Circles and lines : the shape of life in early America / John Demos.".
- catalog title "Shape of life in early America".
- catalog type "text".