Revolutionary Things
ebook ∣ Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
By Ashli White
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How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals
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âBy excavating the power of material objects and visual images to express the fervor and fear of the revolutionary era, Ashli White brings us closer to more fully embodied, more fully human, figures.ââRichard Rabinowitz, author of Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story
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âIn this important, innovative book, Ashli White moves nimbly between North America, Europe, and the Caribbean to capture the richness and complexity of material culture in the Age of Revolutions.ââMichael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University
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Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways.
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Focusing on a range of objectsâceramics and furniture, garments and accessories, prints, maps, and public amusementsâWhite shows how material culture held political meaning for diverse populations. Enslaved and free, women and men, poor and eliteâall turned to things as a means to realize their varied and sometimes competing visions of revolutionary change.
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âBy excavating the power of material objects and visual images to express the fervor and fear of the revolutionary era, Ashli White brings us closer to more fully embodied, more fully human, figures.ââRichard Rabinowitz, author of Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story
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âIn this important, innovative book, Ashli White moves nimbly between North America, Europe, and the Caribbean to capture the richness and complexity of material culture in the Age of Revolutions.ââMichael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University
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Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways.
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Focusing on a range of objectsâceramics and furniture, garments and accessories, prints, maps, and public amusementsâWhite shows how material culture held political meaning for diverse populations. Enslaved and free, women and men, poor and eliteâall turned to things as a means to realize their varied and sometimes competing visions of revolutionary change.