Building the British Atlantic world spaces, places, and material culture, 1600-1850

Introduction / Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. HermanTo build and fortify: defensive architecture in the early Atlantic colonies / Emily Mann -- Seats of government: the public buildings of British America / Carl Lounsbury -- Landscapes of the new republic at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello / Anna...

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Weitere Verfasser: Maudlin, Daniel (HerausgeberIn), Herman, Bernard L. (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction / Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. HermanTo build and fortify: defensive architecture in the early Atlantic colonies / Emily Mann -- Seats of government: the public buildings of British America / Carl Lounsbury -- Landscapes of the new republic at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello / Anna O. Marley -- English artisans' churches and North America: traditions of vernacular classicism in the eighteenth century / Peter Guillery -- The New England meetinghouse: an Atlantic perspective / Peter Benes -- The praying Indian towns: encounter and conversion through imposed urban space / Alison Stanley -- Tools of empire: trade, slaves, and the British forts of West Africa / Christopher Decorse -- The Falmouth house and store: the social landscapes of Caribbean commerce in the eighteenth century / Louis P. Nelson -- Building British Atlantic port cities: Bristol and Liverpool in the eighteenth century / Kenneth Morgan -- Building status in the British Atlantic world: the gentleman's house in the English West Country and Pennsylvania / Stephen Hague -- Parlor and kitchen in the borderlands of the urban British-American Atlantic world, 1670-1720 / Bernard L. Herman -- Palladianism and the villa ideal in South Carolina: the transatlantic perils of classical purity / Lee Morrissey -- Politics and place-making on the edge of empire: loyalists, highlanders, and the early houses of British Canada / Daniel Maudlin.
"Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World"--
"Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:339 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9781469626833
978-1-4696-2683-3
9781469626826
978-1-4696-2682-6