The University Of North Carolina Press

The University Of North Carolina Press - The power of objects in eighteenth-century british america | jennifer van horn

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods.

This volume investigates these diverse artifactsfrom portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devicesto explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire.