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product_id: 32877927
title: "Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World"
brand: "zara anishanslin"
price: "VT18587"
currency: VUV
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category: "Hardcover"
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# Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World

**Brand:** zara anishanslin
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- **What is this?** Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World by zara anishanslin
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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 eighteenth-century 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 object: a London weaver, one of early modern 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 using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for 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 how to write history.

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