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The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

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The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America - Van Horn, Jennifer
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"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 ...

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The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America 2019, Omohundro Institute and Unc Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469652191

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The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America 2017, Omohundro Institute and Unc Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469629568

Hardcover