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Objectifying China, imagining America : Chinese commodities in early America Caroline Frank
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 183.8 .C6 F73 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frank, Caroline.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Relations--China.
- United States.
- United States--Commerce--China.
- China--Relations--United States.
- China.
- China--Commerce--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 257 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2011.
- Contents:
- Beyond the Atlantic in Anglo-America
- The first American China trade
- American mariners in the Indian Ocean, 1690-1700
- Imagining China at home
- Architectural Japanning in early Newport
- Islands of illicit refinement
- Bohia and Chaney for the northern plantations
- The oriental aesthetic in old Yankee households
- China in northern colonial homes
- Manly tea parties
- The idea of China in Boston's rebellion
- Epilogue: an East Indies trade for North America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226260273 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226260275 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226260280 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226260283 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 711050886
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