Ben Marsh

Unravelled Dreams

Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500-1840

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 958g
• ISBN-13: 9781108418287
• ISBN-10: 1108418287
• Artikelnr.: 58305918

Autorenporträt

Ben Marsh is Reader in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He is the author of the award-winning Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony (2007) and Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions (2017), and has published widely on early and revolutionary American history. His research on silk has featured in several exhibitions, including Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700-1820 (Yale Center for British Art and Historical Royal Palaces, 2017), and won the UK Textile Society's Natalie Rothstein Memorial Prize (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of colour plates
List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Prologue
Part I. Emergence: 2. Spain and New Spain
3. England and Virginia
4. France and New France
Part II. Persistence
5. Persistence
6. Lower South: South Carolina and Georgia
7. New England
Part III. Convergence
8. Convergence
9. Pennsylvania and sericultural revolution
10. Silk production in the wake of revolution
11. Epilogue
Selected bibliography
Index.