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

By:

Van Horn, Jennifer [author.]

Contributor(s):

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture [issuing body.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469629575
1469629577
9781469629582
1469629585

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power of objects in eighteenth-century British America.DDC classification:

973.25 23

LOC classification:

E162 .V36 2017

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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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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