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PublisherOmohundro Institute of Early American History & CULTURE

ISBN-101469652196

ISBN-139781469652191

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038391927

Product Key Features

Number of Pages456 Pages

Publication NamePower of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

LanguageEnglish

SubjectArchaeology, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Customs & Traditions, United States / General, Decorative Arts

Publication Year2019

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDesign, Social Science, History

AuthorJennifer Van Horn

SeriesPublished by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-032977

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsForms a powerful testament to the value of true interdisciplinarity in its ability to advance histories of portraiture, decorative arts, and print culture as well as civil society, political identity, and gender and sexuality.-- William and Mary Quarterly, Van Horn's work reveals how objects and people were integral to the networks that defined new individual and group identities within an emerging social order.-- The Journal of Southern History, Provides a convincing argument for the centrality of material culture studies to the ever-evolving American historical imagination. . . . Van Horn offers deft integration of material, visual, textual, emotional, and embodied evidence."-- Winterthur Portfolio, Van Horn's work reveals how objects and people were integral to the networks that defined new individual and group identities within an emerging social order."-- The Journal of Southern History, Represents some of the best of material culture scholarship, blending new information and ideas that are stretched to thought-provoking but not always documentable observations.-- Panorama: Journal of the AHAA, Forms a powerful testament to the value of true interdisciplinarity in its ability to advance histories of portraiture, decorative arts, and print culture as well as civil society, political identity, and gender and sexuality.-- The William and Mary Quarterly, This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages."-- Journal of Southern History, "In her insightful analysis of prints of port municipalities, portraits of men and women of status, tombstones, and ornate furniture, Jennifer Van Horn's study of British America reveals . . . [a] compelling story. . . . [of] a consumer revolution [that] greatly influenced the American Revolution."-- Eighteenth-Century Studies, "Forms a powerful testament to the value of true interdisciplinarity in its ability to advance histories of portraiture, decorative arts, and print culture as well as civil society, political identity, and gender and sexuality."-- William and Mary Quarterly, This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages."-- The Journal of Southern History, Van Horn's work reveals how objects and people were integral to the networks that defined new individual and group identities within an emerging social order."-- Journal of Southern History, "An important contribution to understanding how elite identity was produced during a critical period in American history."-- Journal of American History, Represents some of the best of material culture scholarship, blending new information and ideas that are stretched to thought-provoking but not always documentable observations."-- Panorama: Journal of the AHAA, This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages. . . . Van Horn's work reveals how objects and people were integral to the networks that defined new individual and group identities within an emerging social order."-- Journal of Southern History, In her insightful analysis of prints of port municipalities, portraits of men and women of status, tombstones, and ornate furniture, Jennifer Van Horn's study of British America reveals . . . [a] compelling story. . . . [of] a consumer revolution [that] greatly influenced the American Revolution.-- Eighteenth-Century Studies, An important contribution to understanding how elite identity was produced during a critical period in American history.-- Journal of American History, This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages. . . . Van Horn's work reveals how objects and people were integral to the networks that defined new individual and group identities within an emerging social order.-- Journal of Southern History, In her insightful analysis of prints of port municipalities, portraits of men and women of status, tombstones, and ornate furniture, Jennifer Van Horn's study of British America reveals . . . [a] compelling story. . . . [of] a consumer revolution [that] greatly influenced the American Revolution."-- Eighteenth-Century Studies, "Represents some of the best of material culture scholarship, blending new information and ideas that are stretched to thought-provoking but not always documentable observations."-- Panorama: Journal of the AHAA, This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages.-- The Journal of Southern History, "Provides a convincing argument for the centrality of material culture studies to the ever-evolving American historical imagination. . . . Van Horn offers deft integration of material, visual, textual, emotional, and embodied evidence."-- Winterthur Portfolio, An important contribution to understanding how elite identity was produced during a critical period in American history."-- Journal of American History, Forms a powerful testament to the value of true interdisciplinarity in its ability to advance histories of portraiture, decorative arts, and print culture as well as civil society, political identity, and gender and sexuality."-- William and Mary Quarterly, "This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages. . . . Van Horn's work reveals how objects and people were integral to the networks that defined new individual and group identities within an emerging social order."-- Journal of Southern History, Provides a convincing argument for the centrality of material culture studies to the ever-evolving American historical imagination. . . . Van Horn offers deft integration of material, visual, textual, emotional, and embodied evidence.-- Winterthur Portfolio

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973.25

SynopsisOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America 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. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston.Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society., Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America 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. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.

LC Classification NumberE162.V36 2017