Anglo-Americans
Archaeology
British America
Category=AGA
Category=AM
Category=JBCC2
Category=NKD
Colonial history of the United States
Consumer revolution
Consumerism
Cultural hegemony
Earthenware
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Freeman (Colonial)
Henry Laurens
Household
Letters from an American Farmer
Material culture
Nationalization
Neoclassical architecture
Slavery
Smithsonian Institution
Tenement
Wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9781570038525
- Weight: 568g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2009
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book offers a heavily illustrated comparative study of artifacts and architecture from three historically linked regions. ""Material Culture in Anglo-America"" examines the extent to which regions project cultural identities through the material forms of objects, buildings, and constructed environments. This volume explores the material constitution of the West Indies, Carolina lowcountry, and Chesapeake Tidewater - three historically related regions that shared strong likenesses in culture, commerce, and political development in the colonial through antebellum eras, yet also cultivated the distinctive regional flair with which they are now associated. The contributors - an impressive and international array of historical archeologists, art historians, literary historians, museum curators, social historians, geographers, and historians of material culture - combine theoretical reflections on the poetics of representative material culture with empirical studies of how things were made and put to use in specific locales. They argue that the material culture of urban and rural settings interpenetrated each other and discuss the complications of class, race, religion, and settler culture within developing regions to reveal how all of these factors influenced the richness of crafted artifacts. The study is further grounded in several striking case studies that dramatically demonstrate how constructed things can embody communal self-understanding while still participating in an overarching transatlantic cultural community.
David S. Shields is the McClintock Professor of Southern Letters in the Departments of English and History at the University of South Carolina, editor of the journal Early American Literature, and director of the Southern Texts Society.
