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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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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Table des matières:
- 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.