Building the British Atlantic World
Subtitle: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781469626826
Subjects: Architecture, great britain; Great britain, colonies, america; Great britain, colonies, africa; Great britain, civilization
Description: "Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World"--