The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America / Jennifer Van Horn.

Author
Van Horn, Jennifer [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm.

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      "Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. [Van Horn] investigates these diverse artifacts--from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices--to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.
      Notes
      Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Introduction
      • 1. Imprinting the civil
      • 2. The power of paint
      • 3. Portraits of in stone
      • 4. Masquerading as colonists
      • 5. The art of concealment
      • 6. Crafting citizens
      • Epilogue
      • Index.
      Other title(s)
      Power of objects in 18th century British America
      ISBN
      • 9781469629568 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
      • 1469629569 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
      • 1469652196 ((pbk.))
      • 9781469652191 ((pbk.))
      LCCN
      2016032977
      OCLC
      954134267
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