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Robert Blair St. George

Autor(a) de Material Life In America, 1600-1860

6 Works 164 Membros 2 Reviews

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Louise M. Burkhart is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York Toby L. Ditz is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Sandra M. Gustafson is Assistant Professor of English at the University mostrar mais of Notre Dame David D. Hall teaches American history and religion at Harvard Divinity School Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex Susan Juster is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan Margaretta M. Lovell is Associate Professor of History of Art and codirector of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Jose Antonio Mazzotti is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where he specializes in Latin American literature Michael Meranze is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego Laura J. Murray is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches American and Native American literatures Anne G. Myles is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa Dana D. Nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky Robert Blair St. George is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania Irene Silverblatt is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of Michigan John K. Thornton teaches in the Department of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania Michael Warner is Professor of English at Rutgers University mostrar menos

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Essays of value for my purposes:
Village and Community in Early Colonial New England by Joseph S.Wood - but uses jargon
*Furniture and the Domestic Environment in Wethersfield, Connecticut 1639 - 1800 by Kevin M. Sweeney - uses probate inventories over time
Artifacts of Regional Consciousness in the Connecticut River Valley, 1700 - 1780 by Robert Blair St. George - more about elites house details, etc
Seating the Meetinghouse in Early Massachusetts by Robert J. Dinkin
Tea - drinking in Eighteenth Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage by Rodris Roth
*For Honour and Civl Worship to Any Worthy PErson: Burial, Baptism, and Community on the Massachusetts Near Frontier 1730 - 1790 by John L. Brooke - excellent re Baptists
The Rural Cemetery Movement: Urban Travail and the Appeal of Nature by Thomas Bender
*Culture and Cultivation: Agriculture and Society in Thoreau's Concord by Robert A. Gross - uses tax lists re how land use,assets change over time
*Domestic Architecture as an Index to Social History: The Romantic Revival and the Cult of Domesticity in America 1840 -1870 by Clifford E. Clark, Jr.
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Hobbslib | Jan 2, 2012 |
This is a great starting point for studies on the poetics of space, place, and non-representation in colonial New England. The emphasis on eighteenth-century New England ascribed meanings (culture?) has largely been subsumed into John Wood Sweet's study (gender, race, body orientation in socio-cultural space). For the period between 1740-1800, Benjamin Carp's monograph is now considered the definitive interpretation of landscapes and built environments...a WMQ reviewer called for a more expansive scope, which suggests possible avenues for a "reinterpretation" of both the "public sphere" and the Revolution. Society and culture, rather than "embodiment" hehe. Still, the essential source for pre-eighteenth century poetics!… (mais)
 
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rwtripp | Jan 8, 2009 |

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Obras
6
Membros
164
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#129,117
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4.0
Resenhas
2
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9

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