New views of New England : studies in material and visual culture, 1680-1830 /
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| Imprint: | Boston : The Colonial Society of Massachusetts : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2012. |
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| Description: | xxxv, 277 p. : ill. (some color.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 82 Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 82. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9098481 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Materiality of Experience in Early New England
- Early New England's Oceanic Context
- The Archaeology of 1690: Status and Material Life on New England's Northern Frontier
- Depicting Geographic Knowledge: Mariners' Drawings from Salem, Massachusetts
- Navigation, Vision, and Empire: Eighteenth-Century Engraved Views of Boston in a British Atlantic Context
- Buildings, Landscapes, and the Representation of Authority on the Eastern Frontier
- Domestic Exchange and Regional Identity
- "The Remainder of Our Effects We Must Leave Behind": American Loyalists and the Meaning of Things
- The Color of Whiteness: Picturing Race on Ivory
- Hares Haeredem: The Spectator Through Samuel Dexter's Spectacles
- "Often concerned in funerals": Ritual, Material Culture, and the Large Funeral in the Age of Samuel Sewall
- Envisioning New England
- The "New England" Cartouche: Tablets, Tableaux, and Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Cartography
- New England's Ends
- List of Contributors
- Index