Description: Further DetailsTitle: Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic WorldCondition: NewSubtitle: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780ISBN-10: 0801438551EAN: 9780801438554ISBN: 9780801438554Publisher: Cornell University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/13/2001Description: Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with possessions. Early Americans suspected luxuries as a corrupting force that would lead to an aristocracy. In Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World, Phyllis Whitman Hunter demonstrates how elite Americans not only became infatuated with their belongings, but also avidly pursued consumption to shape their world and proclaim their success. In eighteenth-century New England harbor towns, the commercial gentry led their communities into full participation in a flourishing Anglo-American consumer culture. Affluent traders constructed roads, wharves, and warehouses, built mansions and assembly buildings, adopted new forms of sociability, and fostered the rise of the public sphere. Using case studies of influential merchant families, Hunter brings alive the process by which Boston and Salem evolved from Puritan towns dominated by families of English origin to Georgian provincial cities open to a diversity of religious affiliations and European ethnicities. Hunter then explores how revolutionary politics overturned polite society and transformed the meanings of possessions. Patriots threw tea to the fish in Boston Harbor, donned homespun at Harvard commencements, and transformed a silver punch bowl into an icon of liberty. The wealthy either espoused republican values and muted their material displays or fled to exile. Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World,reveals a critical link in the complex relationship between capitalism and culture: the process by which material goods become symbols of profound social and cultural significance.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 28gAuthor: Phyllis Whitman HunterGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World
Title: Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World
Subtitle: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780
ISBN-10: 0801438551
EAN: 9780801438554
ISBN: 9780801438554
Release Date: 06/13/2001
Release Year: 2001
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World : Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2001
Topic: Industries / Retailing, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Economic Conditions, Commerce, Economics / General, United States / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Author: Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
