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

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenthcentury British Atlantic world While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this obj ISBN10: 0300197055 ISBN13: 9780300197051 Material Type: hardcover