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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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Autor principal: Van Horn, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (456 pages).
ISBN:9781469629582