The fabric of empire : material and literary cultures of the global Atlantic / Danielle C. Skeehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skeehan, Danielle C., 1980- author.

Contributor:

Project Muse.

Series:

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile industry--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Textile industry.

Paper industry--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Paper industry.

Material culture--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Material culture.

History.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781421439693

1421439697

Publisher Number:

40030218647

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Restricted for use by site license.