Spanish, French and English Traditions in the Colonial Silver of North America
Author : Winterthur conference. 14th. 1968
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Winterthur conference. 14th. 1968
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 1968
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Silverwork, Colonial
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Page : 109 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Philippa Glanville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136611630
First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761991601
The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of material culture.
Author : Dell Upton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300065657
"Holy Things and Profane is a study of architecture -- of the thirty-seven extant colonial Anglican churches of Virginia and of their vanished neighbors whose existence is recorded in contemporary records, particularly the forty-six vestry books and registers that have survived in whole or in part."--Preface.
Author : Leona Davis Boylan
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Author : Barbara McLean Ward
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Copyright
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Author : Jon Butler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2001-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0674253213
Winner of the John G. Cawelti Award, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association “We must congratulate Butler for [bringing] under control [a] profusion of scholarship and [making] sense of it in fewer than 250 pages. His book is a tour de force...Compelling and readable.”—Gordon S. Wood, New Republic “Americans today think of the colonial period, if at all, as a time remote from modern America, in which society was unimaginably different from ours. Butler argues persuasively that America during the late colonial period...displayed distinctive traits of modern America, among them vigorous religious pluralism, bewildering ethnic diversity, tremendous inequalities of wealth, and a materialistic society with pervasively commercial values.”—Kirkus Reviews Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, power-hungry, religiously plural: America today—and three hundred years ago. Jon Butler’s panoramic view of the mainland American colonies after 1680 transforms our customary picture of pre-Revolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly “modern“ character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto “dark ages”) of the American colonial experience, Butler shows us vast revolutionary changes in a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was already becoming America.