Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Name: Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America
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ISBN: 9780226260280

ISBN-10: 0226260283

ISBN-13: 9780226260280

Edition: 2011

Authors: Caroline Frank

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With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds-and account books-of eighteenth-century Americans as it does today. Long before they had achieved independence from Britain and were able to sail to Asia themselves, American mariners, merchants, and consumers were aware of the East Indies and preparing for voyages there. Focusing on the trade and consumption of porcelain, tea, and chinoiserie, Frank shows that colonial Americans saw themselves as part of a world much larger than just Britain and Europe Frank not only recovers…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Caroline Frankis an independent scholar, visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Brown University, and historian for the Greene Farm Archaeology Project.



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Beyond the Atlantic in Anglo-America



The First American China Trade: American Mariners in the Indian Ocean, 1690-1700



Imagining China at Home: Architectural Japanning in Early Newport



Islands of Illicit Refinement: Bohea and Cbaney for the Northern Plantations



The Oriental Aesthetic in Old Yankee Households: China in Northern Colonial Homes



Manly Tea Parties


The Idea of China in Bostons Rebellion


Epilogue: An East Indies Trade for North America


Notes


Index