The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America / Jennifer Van Horn.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm.

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.

"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.

English

August 17, 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body.