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A cultural history of the American Revolution : painting, music, literature, and the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789 / Kenneth Silverman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, Kenneth.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, American--History.
- Arts, American.
- Arts, American--18th century.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Miscellanea.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Miscellanea.
- United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789--Miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 699 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- New York : T.Y. Crowell, c1976.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- One Culture in British America Between the Treaty of Paris and the Stamp Act, 1763-1765
- 1: Commencement: 1763
- 2: The Art World
- 3: Musical Life
- 4: The Literary Scene
- 5: The Theater
- Two: Demonstrations - American Culture 1765-1770
- 6: Stamp Act Protests: August-December 1765
- 7: Excursus: Whig Sentimentalism
- 8: Benjamin West's American School in London": June 1763-early 1766
- 9: Charles Willson Peale Flees to New England: Summer 1765
- 10: Copley's Boy with Squirrel: Fall 1765
- 11: Douglass' New Troupe in Charleston: October 25-November 4, 1765
- 12: Repeal of the Stamp Act: January-May 1766
- 13: Hopkinson and Peale in London: July 1766-Spring 1767
- 14: Success of Boy with Squirrel: August 1766
- 15: Opening of the Southwark Theatre: November 1766; the First American Actor; the First American Play, the Prince of Parthia: April 24, 1767
- 16: The Townshend Acts: June 1767; Liberty Songs and Poems: 1768-69
- 17: West's Agrippina. Peale's Pitt: c. Spring 1767-Spring 1769
- 18: Arrival of John Henry: August 1767; The Virginia Company of Comedians; the American Company Thwarted Again in Charleston: August 1769
- 19: British Troups in Boston: October 1768-march 1770
- 20: Repeal of the Townshend Acts: April 1770; Statue of King George Raised in New York: August 23, 1770
- OneCulture in British America during the 'Quiet Period,' 1770-1773
- 21: Commencement: 1770
- 22: The Art World
- 23: Musical Life
- 24: the Literary Scene
- 25: The Theatre
- Two: Battles - American Culture 1773-1783
- 26: The Tea Act and the Boston Port Bill: May 1773-September 1774
- 27: Copley in Europe: July 1774-March 1775
- 28: The First Continental Congress: September-October 1774
- 29: Lexington, Concord, Bunkeer's Hill: April-June 1775
- 30: The Siege of Boston: July 1775-March 1776
- 31: Outside Boston: Spring 1774-Spring 1776
- 32: The Second Continental Congress Declares Independence: Fall 1775-Summer 1776
- 33: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania: Summer 1776-Winter 1777-78
- 34: Excursus: Music in the Army
- 35: Philadelphia and New York: Summer 1778-Summer 1780
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01400 hdl
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