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Inventing Boston

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During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and articulated its own identity while selectively appropriating British culture and fashion. This revelatory book examines period dwellings, gravestones, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and silver, revealing through material culture how the inhabitants of Boston were colonial, provincial, metropolitan, and global, all at the same time. Edward S. Cooke, Jr.’s detailed account of materials and furnishing practices demonstrates that Bostonians actively filtered ideas and goods from a variety of sources, combined them with local materials and preferences, and constructed a distinct sense of local identity, a process of hybridization that, the author argues, exhibited a conscious desire to shape a culture as a means to resist a distant, dominant power. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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ISBN: 9780300232110
Publication date: 14th May 2019
Author: Edward Cooke
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 232 pages
Genres: Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration
History of art
History of the Americas
Local history