Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World : : Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780 / / Phyllis Whitman Hunter.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 5 maps, 9 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. "Emporium for the World"
- 1. Piety and Profit in Puritan Boston
- 2. Much Commerce and Many Cultures
- 3. Puritans, the Polite, and the Impolite
- 4. The Work of Gentility in the Provinces
- 5. A Return to Homespun
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index