Material culture in Anglo-America
Subtitle: regional identity and urbanity in the Tidewater, lowcountry, and Caribbean / edited by David S. Shields.
Contributors: Shields, David S.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781570038525
Subjects: Material culture -- Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) -- History; Material culture -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History; Material culture -- West Indies, British -- History; Regionalism -- America -- Case studies; City and town life -- Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) -- History; City and town life -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History; City and town life -- West Indies, British -- History; Tidewater (Va. : Region) -- Social conditions; Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Social conditions; West Indies, British -- Social conditions
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Materializing regional identity; title: St. Augustine : the first century, 1565-1665 / Paul E. Hoffman; title: Building for disaster : hurricanes and the built environments in South Carolina and the British West Indies / Matthew Mulcahy; title: Christ Church, Savannah : loopholes in metropolitan design on the frontier / Carl R. Lounsbury; title: "The diversity of countries" : Anglican churches in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica / Louis P. Nelson; title: Colonial castles : the architecture of social control / Eric Klingelhofer; title: Rituals of rulership : the material culture of West Indian politics / Natalie Zacek; title: L'Hermitage on the Monocacy Battlefield, Frederick, Maryland / Paula Stoner Reed; title: A dissenting space : meetinghouse and location in early Dorchester, South Carolina / Jeffrey H. Richards; title: Charlestown to Charleston : urban and plantation connections in an Atlantic setting / Roger H. Leech; title: pt. 2. Locating urbanity; title: A poetics of urban space / Bernard L. Herman; title: Building Charleston : the expansion of an eighteenth-century British Atlantic town / Emma Hart; title: Domestic material culture and consumer demand in the British Atlantic world : colonial South Carolina, 1670-1770 / R.C. Nash; title: The archaeological signature of eighteenth-century Charleston / Martha A. Zierden; title: Changing our habitation : Henry Laurens, Rattray Green, and the revolutionary movement in Charleston's domestic spaces / Benjamin L. Carp; title: Raphaelle Peale's Still life with oranges : status, ritual, and the illusion of mastery / Maurie D. McInnis; title: Urban plantations in the national city : slavery, republican ideology, and conflict on the streets of early Washington / Laura Croghan Kamoie.