Umfang:
xiii, 184 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781421439686
Serie:
Studies in early American economy and society from the library company of Philadelphia
Inhalt:
Introduction. The material (con)texts of global modernity -- I. The empire's new clothes: British publics and imperial politics, 1650-1720 -- Patterns for plantation: New World silk and the natural history of settler colonialism -- Indo-Atlantic modernity: the early cotton trade and the emergence of racial capitalism -- II. Revolutionary threads: new world publics and insurgent economies, 1750-1800 -- The republic of homespun: material economies of the American Revolution -- Materializing the Black Atlantic: African captives, Caribbean slaves, and Creole fashioning -- III. The fabric of American empire: imagined communities and new geographies, 1600-1865 -- Oriental America: silk geographies in the era of the early republic -- Empires in rags: hemispheric American material and literary texts -- Epilogue: weaving revolution in the global south
Inhalt:
"This book combines material history with literary interpretation in a richly theoretical work of cultural history. The author examines the global textile trade alongside early Atlantic printing and papermaking and considers how these two related media were fundamental to the social fabrication of Atlantic subjects and Creole societies."
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4214-3969-3
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
Schlagwort(e):
Atlantischer Raum
;
Literatur
;
Textilwirtschaft
;
Geschichte 1650-1850
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