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• Title:A material world : culture, society, and the life of things in early Anglo-America / edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta Markle Lovell.
  
• ISBN:9780271081151
  0271081155
  
• Publication:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2019
  
• Physical Description:x, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: 86 019 M33
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Gift of the publisher; October 2019.
    

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  • Call Number: E162 .M33 2019 (LC)
    
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• Summary:"A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction : culture, society, and the material world / Margaretta Markle Lovell -- Picturing Penn : portraits, public memory, and the political culture of late colonial Pennsylvania / George W. Boudreau -- Ascending the stair : Charles Wilson Peale's Staircase group, reimagining a grand-manner portrait in federal Philadelphia / Carol Eaton Soltis -- Artists' materials and the transatlantic craft traditions of eighteenth-century American portrait painting / Ellen G. Miles -- Clock making in southwestern Connecticut, 1760-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Edward S. Cooke Jr. -- Face, place, and power : James Logan, Stenton, and the Anglo-American gentleman's house / Stephen G. Hague -- Trophy heads at Monticello / Margaretta Markle Lovell -- "Painting" faces and "dressing" tables : concealment in colonial dressing furniture / Jennifer Van Horn -- Mommy dearest : Britannica, American, and mother-daughter conflicts in eighteenth-century prints and medals / Nancy Siegel -- "The family of Derby has a taste in this way" : the homes of Elias Hasket and Elizabeth Derby, 1762-1799 / Emily A. Murphy -- From region to nation : M.F. Cornè's Landing of the pilgrims and the circulation of images in the early republic / Patricia Johnston -- Remembering the "olden time" : John Fanning Watson's cultivation of memory and relics in early national Philadelphia / Laura C. Keim.
  
• Subjects:Material culture--United States--History--18th century.
  Politics and culture--United States--History--18th century.
  Civilization.
  Manners and customs.
  Material culture.
  Politics and culture.
  United States--Civilization--18th century.
  United States--Social life and customs--18th century.
  United States.
  
• Also listed under:Boudreau, George W., editor.
  Lovell, Margaretta M., editor.