Building the British Atlantic world : spaces, places, and material culture, 1600-1850 / edited by Daniel Maudlin & Bernard L. Herman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maudlin, Daniel, editor.

Herman, Bernard L., 1951-2024, editor.

Series:

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Material culture--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

British.

Architecture, British colonial--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Architecture, British colonial.

Architecture, British--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Architecture, British.

Colonies.

Civilization.

History.

Material culture.

Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Great Britain--Civilization.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Civilization.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa, West--Civilization.

West Africa.

America.

Physical Description:

339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. Herman

To build and fortify: defensive architecture in the early Atlantic colonies / Emily Mann

Seats of government: the public buildings of British America / Carl Lounsbury

Landscapes of the new republic at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello / Anna O. Marley

English artisans' churches and North America: traditions of vernacular classicism in the eighteenth century / Peter Guillery

The New England meetinghouse: an Atlantic perspective / Peter Benes

The praying Indian towns: encounter and conversion through imposed urban space / Alison Stanley

Tools of empire: trade, slaves, and the British forts of West Africa / Christopher DeCorse

The Falmouth house and store: the social landscapes of Caribbean commerce in the eighteenth century / Louis P. Nelson

Building British Atlantic port cities: Bristol and Liverpool in the eighteenth century / Kenneth Morgan

Building status in the British Atlantic world: the gentleman's house in the English West Country and Pennsylvania / Stephen Hague

Parlor and kitchen in the borderlands of the urban British-American Atlantic world, 1670-1720 / Bernard L. Herman

Palladianism and the villa ideal in South Carolina: the transatlantic perils of classical purity / Lee Morrissey

Politics and place-making on the edge of empire: loyalists, highlanders, and the early houses of British Canada / Daniel Maudlin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index.

ISBN:

9781469626826

1469626829

OCLC:

921310693