UID:
almahu_9949494482302882
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9780300220551 (ebook) :
Content:
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the 18th century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labour and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of 4 identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain's few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant's wife and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire.
Note:
Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund.
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Previously issued in print: 2016.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780300197051
Language:
English
URL:
Yale scholarship online
