Name/Title
Material Life in America, 1600-1860Entry/Object ID
2011.002.037Description
Draws upon folklore, anthropology, and the decorative arts to portray early American life.
Contents: Mind in matter : an introduction to material culture theory and method / Jules David Prown -- Ethnographic method in history : an action approach / Rhys Isaac -- Meaningful things and appropriate myths : the artifact's place in American studies / Henry Glassie -- The Indians' New World : the Catawba experience / James H. Merrell -- Impermanent architecture in the Southern American colonies / Cary Carson ... [et al.] -- Village and community in early colonial New England / Joseph S. Wood -- "Shining in Borrowed Plumage" : affirmation of community in the Black coronation festivals of New England, ca. 1750-1850 / Melvin Wade -- A small planter's profits : the Cole estate and the growth of the early Chesapeake economy / Russell R. Menard, Lois Green Carr, and Lorena S. Walsh -- Work and culture : the task system and the world of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700-1880 / Philip D. Morgan -- The material lives of laboring Philadelphians, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith -- Furniture and the domestic environment in Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1639-1800 / Kevin M. Sweeney -- Women and property in South Carolina : the evidence from marriage settlements, 1730-1830 / Marylynn Salmon -- Hog meat and cornpone : foodways in the antebellum South / Sam B. Hilliard -- Artifacts of regional consciousness in the Connecticut River Valley, 1700-1780 / Robert Blair St. George -- White and black Landscapes in Eighteenth-century Virginia / Dell Upton -- Rewalking the "Walking City" housing and property relations in New York City, 1780-1840 / Betsy Blackmar -- Pawtucket village and the strike of 1824 : the origins of class conflict in Rhode Island -- Gary Kulik Seating the meetinghouse in early Massachusetts / Robert J. Dinkin -- Authority, law, and custom : the rituals of court day in Tidewater Virginia, 1720-1750 / A. G. Roeber -- Tea-Drinking in Eighteenth-century America : its etiquette and equipage / Rodris Roth -- "For Honour and Civil worship to any worthy person" : burial, baptism, and community on the Massachusetts near frontier, 1730-1790 / John L. Brooke -- the career of colonel Pluck : folk drama and popular protest in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Susan G. Davis -- The "Rural" cemetery movement : urban travail and the Appeal of Nature / Thomas Bender -- Culture and cultivation : agriculture and society in Thoreau's concord / Robert A. Gross -- Domestic architecture as an Index to social history : the romantic revival and the cult of domesticity in America, 1840-1870 / Clifford E. Clark, Jr.
xiii, 570 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2011.002.Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2011)Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Material culture--United States, United States--Social life and customs--To 1775, United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865Book Details
Author
St. George, Robert BlairPublisher
Northeastern University PressPlace Published
City
BostonLocation
MassachusettsCountry
United States of AmericaDate Published
1987Call No.
E161 .M36 1987ISBN
1555530206Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Category
PermanentGeneral Notes
Note
Notes: Edited by Robert Blair St. George.
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