Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The British American Navigator
Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel BowditchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America
Author: Jennifer Van HornPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469629577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
The New American Practical Navigator
Author: The British American Magazine
Author: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Author: United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of NavigationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A System of the Shipping and Navigation Laws of Great Britain
Author: Francis Ludlow HoltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Navigation for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of NavigationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation
Author: Isaac Smith HomansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Author: