id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt hd76rx93d5q Curtis Charles Urban An Emotional Revolution: Fearing France in New England, 1754-1794 1904 .txt text/plain 181 4 24 Fear of France shaped understandings of all other concerns and sensibilities for New England colonists during a tumultuous era, serving as the defining emotion which created a mindset that framed the decisions and dictated the actions of New Englanders as they engaged in a revolution and built a nation. This dissertation examines interactions between New Englanders and the French from the beginning of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the French Revolution to better understand how these exchanges informed New Englanders' conceptions of their roles first as provincials in the British Empire and then as citizens of a new republic. cache/hd76rx93d5q.txt txt/hd76rx93d5q.txt