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A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America

A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America

Boudreau, George W.
Lovell, Margaretta M.

Hardcover

Art HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0271081155
ISBN13: 9780271081151
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Jan 28 2019
Pages: 344
Weight: 3.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.40 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

In this volume, scholars from various disciplines show how physical objects can expand our comprehension of how people lived, worked, and thought during the colonial and early national periods.

Inspired by the material turn that introduced the legibility of objects across humanities disciplines, the essays in this collection show how reading material objects from sites such as Monticello, Salem, and the Connecticut River Valley brings to light significant dimensions of social experience and cultural practices that are not visible in the written record of early America. Reading objects for evidence of the lives and values of the individuals and groups that imagined, fabricated, bought, and used them, the contributors examine the migration of items such as chairs, fashionable dressing tables, portraits, and even natural relics. In doing so, they uncover complex economic, ethical, and mnemonic issues; investigate the political life of seemingly unpolitical things such as a rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts; and consider the environmental riches and extraction industries behind early American prosperity and ingenuity.

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