Revolutionary things: material culture and politics in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals "By excavating the power of material objects and visual images to express the fervor and fear of the revolutionary era, Ashli White...

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Main Author: White, Ashli (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT Yale University Press [2023]
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Online Access:DE-255
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Summary:How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals "By excavating the power of material objects and visual images to express the fervor and fear of the revolutionary era, Ashli White brings us closer to more fully embodied, more fully human, figures."-Richard Rabinowitz, author of Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story "In this important, innovative book, Ashli White moves nimbly between North America, Europe, and the Caribbean to capture the richness and complexity of material culture in the Age of Revolutions."-Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University Ashli White analyzes the circulation of objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that the ideals of the Atlantic revolutions were contested not just in texts but also through objects. She considers how, as revolutionary things traveled from one site in the Atlantic to another, they brought people into contact with these political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways. Focusing on a wide range of objects with transnational reach-ceramics and furniture, garments and accessories, prints, maps, and public amusements-she draws out the political impact of material culture for diverse populations. Enslaved and free, women and men, poor, middling, and elite-all turned to objects as a means to realize their varied, and sometimes competing, visions of revolutionary change
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780300271843
DOI:10.12987/9780300271843

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