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In the looking glass : mirrors and identity in early America /

"In the Looking Glass explores how mirrors shaped human identity in North America from the earliest European explorations through the nineteenth century. Early Americans--African, Native, and European--had uses for and beliefs about reflective surfaces, largely associating reflection with ritua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shrum, Rebecca K. (Rebecca Kathleen), 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The evolving technology of the looking glass
  • First glimpses : mirrors in seventeenth-century New England
  • Looking glass ownership in early America
  • Reliable mirrors and troubling visions : nineteenth-century white
  • Understandings of sight
  • Fashioning whiteness
  • Mirrors in black and red
  • Epilogue.