New Views of New England: Studies in Material and Visual Culture, 1680-1830 (Volume 82) (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 82)

ISBN 10: 0985254300 / ISBN 13: 9780985254308

Published by Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2012

About this Item

Colonial Society of Massachusetts hardcover in dust jacket, blue cloth binding, 2012- first edition/1st printing; clean/tight, blacked out name on front endpaper else unmarked, no signs of use, jacket has a 1/8" closed tear at top of spine; (Fine/Near Fine). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Views of New England: Studies in Material and Visual Culture, 1680-1830 (Volume 82) (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 82)
• Publisher: Colonial Society of Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985254300
• ISBN 13: 9780985254308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 6W x 9.25H x 1.25D inches 6 inches width by 9.25 inches height by 1.25 inches depth
• Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • History: New England

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Synopsis

Beautifully illustrated, this collection of essays will introduce the reader to a rich, surprising, thought-provoking, and entirely new view of early New England. Eleven essays written by historians, archaeologists, art and architectural historians, and literary scholars recast our understanding of New England by setting its material and visual culture in new contexts. Essays on the archaeology of seventeenth-century Maine settlements, the geographical knowledge of Salem sailors and ship captains, the mid-eighteenth-century cartographic depictions of Boston, and the built environment of Maine in the early nineteenth century all place New England into the broader purview of a transoceanic movement of people, ideas, and objects.

About the Author

Martha J. McNamara, author of From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture and Ritual in American Law, 1658–1860, is director of the New England Arts and Architecture Program in the Department of Art at Wellesley College. Georgia B. Barnhill is the founding director of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society.