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 as...

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1. Verfasser: Van Horn, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
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]
Schriftenreihe:Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
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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:1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469629575
1469629577
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