Name/Title
In the Looking Glass: Mirrors and Identity in Early AmericaEntry/Object ID
2017.025.1Description
Explores how mirrors shaped human identity in North America from the earliest European explorations through the 19th century, bringing together the history of technology and the history of identity, using textual, visual, and material sources to focus on how mirrors were created, adopted, adapted, and discussed by a wide variety of early Americans.
Chapters: The evolving technology of the looking glass -- First glimpses : mirrors in seventeenth-century New England -- Looking glass ownership in early America -- Reliable mirrors and troubling visions : nineteenth century
white -- Understandings of sight -- Fashioning whiteness -- Mirrors in black and red -- Epilogue.
221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2017.025Source or Donor
Rebecca ShurmAcquisition Method
OtherCredit Line
Courtesy of Rebecca ShurmLexicon
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Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Mirrors--Social aspects--United States--History, Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects--United States--History, Race awareness--United States--History, Sex roles--United States--History, Technology--Social aspects--United States--History, Material culture--United States--History, United States--Social life and customs--To 1775, United States--Social life and customs--1775-1783, United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865, United States--Social conditions--To 1865Book Details
Author
Shrum, Rebecca K. (Rebecca Kathleen), 1972-Publisher
Johns Hopkins University PressDate Published
circa 2017Call No.
E162 .S557 2017ISBN
9781421423128LCCN
2016046647Location
Location
Building
NRH Research RoomCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General Notes
Note
Notes: By Rebecca K. Shrum.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Given per terms of Permission to Publish (see Fig. 3.9, p. 69).Created By
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December 20, 2017Updated By
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February 16, 2023