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

Building the British Atlantic world : spaces, places, and material culture, 1600-1850 / edited by Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. Herman. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / To build and fortify: defensive architecture in the early Atlantic colonies / Seats of government: the public buildings of British America / Landscapes of the new republic at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello / English artisans' churches and North America: traditions of vernacular classicism in the eighteenth century / The New England meetinghouse: an Atlantic perspective / The praying Indian towns: encounter and conversion through imposed urban space / Tools of empire: trade, slaves, and the British forts of West Africa / The Falmouth house and store: the social landscapes of Caribbean commerce in the eighteenth century / Building British Atlantic port cities: Bristol and Liverpool in the eighteenth century / Building status in the British Atlantic world: the gentleman's house in the English West Country and Pennsylvania / Parlor and kitchen in the borderlands of the urban British-American Atlantic world, 1670-1720 / Palladianism and the villa ideal in South Carolina: the transatlantic perils of classical purity / Politics and place-making on the edge of empire: loyalists, highlanders, and the early houses of British Canada / Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. Herman -- Emily Mann -- Carl Lounsbury -- Anna O. Marley -- Peter Guillery -- Peter Benes -- Alison Stanley -- Christopher Decorse -- Louis P. Nelson -- Kenneth Morgan -- Stephen Hague -- Bernard L. Herman -- Lee Morrissey -- 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"--



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British--Material culture--History.--Atlantic Ocean Region
Architecture, British colonial--History.--Atlantic Ocean Region
Architecture, British--History.--Atlantic Ocean Region


Electronic Books.

DA123 / .B855 2016