The Power Of Objects In Eighteenth-Century British America (Published By The Omohundro Institute Of Early American History And Culture And The University Of North Carolina Press)

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--

• | Author: Jennifer Van Horn
• | Publisher: Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 456 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1469652196
• | ISBN-13: 9781469652191