Material Culture in Anglo-America - Regional Identity Urbanity in Tidewater, Lowcountry, Caribbean

Informationen zum Autor David S. Shields is the McClintock Professor of Southern Letters in the Departments of English and History at the University of South Carolina, editor of the journal Early American Literature, and director of the Southern Texts Society. He is the editor of American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Library of America series and the author of Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America and Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750. Klappentext A heavily illustrated comparative study of artifacts and architecture from three historically linked regions Zusammenfassung Explores the material constitution of the West Indies! Carolina lowcountry! and Chesapeake Tidewater - three historically related regions that shared strong likenesses in culture! commerce! and political development in the colonial through antebellum eras! yet also cultivated the distinctive regional flair with which they are associated.

Product details

• Authors: David Shields
• Assisted by: David Shields (Editor), David S Shields (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2009
• EAN: 9781570038525
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-852-5
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Carolina Lowcountry and the At; Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World; Carolina Lowcountry and the At; The Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories