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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.