New views of New England : studies in material and visual culture, 1680-1830 / Martha J. McNamara, Georgia B. Barnhill, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944- editor.

McNamara, Martha J., editor.

Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

Series:

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 82.

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

History.

New England--History--1775-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Boston : The Colonial Society of Massachusetts : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Foreword / Georgia B. Barnhill

Introduction: The materiality of experience in early New England / Martha J. McNamara

Early New England's oceanic context (The archaeology of 1690: status and material life on New England's northern frontier / Emerson W. Baker; Depicting geographic knowledge: mariners' drawings from Salem, Massachusetts / Patricia Johnston; Navigation, vision, and empire: eighteenth-century engraved views of Boston in a British Atlantic context / Kevin Muller; Buildings, landscapes, and the representation of authority on the Eastern frontier / Kevin D. Murphy)

Domestic exchange and regional identity ("The remainder of our effects we must leave behind": American Loyalists and the meaning of things / Katherine Rieder; The color of whiteness: picturing race on ivory / Catherine E. Kelly; Hares Haeredem: The Spectator through Samuel Dexter's spectacles / Katherine Stebbins McCaffrey; "Often concerned in funerals": ritual, material culture, and the large funeral in the age of Samuel Sewall / Steven C. Bullock)

Envisioning New England (The "New England" cartouche: tablets, tableaux, and theatricality in eighteenth-century cartography / Martin Brückner ; New England's ends / Wendy Bellion).

Notes:

Includes "List of contributors" (p. 263-265).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780985254308

0985254300

OCLC:

813002584