The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America:

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Van Horn, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xvii, 428 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten mit Bildtafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:9781469629568
9781469652191

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