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 assembled o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Instatite of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | 36-hour day book.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469629568 1469629569 |