The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America

The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America

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

xvii, 428 p., [8] colored p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.

973.2 V256 2017

(OCoLC)954134267

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Library has 2 copies: c. 1 (L2017G54); c. 2 (L2017M162)

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