Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World

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Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a captivating journey, exploring and refining debates in regards to the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. Whilst most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable individuals who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one in every of early brand new Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter.
 
Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and the usage of goods within the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, Whilst also taking into consideration different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about the right way to write history.

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