The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America / by Jennifer Van Horn
Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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
Summary
"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
