The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

Author:   Jennifer Van Horn
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:  

9781469652191


Pages:   456
Publication Date:   30 January 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jennifer Van Horn
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9781469652191


ISBN 10:   1469652196
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   30 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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 Imaginatively developed, extensively documented, and well written. Recommended. - Choice 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


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 Imaginatively developed, extensively documented, and well written. Recommended.--Choice


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 This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages.--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 Imaginatively developed, extensively documented, and well written. Recommended.--Choice


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Jennifer Van Horn is assistant professor of art history and history at the University of Delaware.

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