During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and articulated its own identity while selectively appropriating British culture and fashion. This revelatory book examines period dwellings, gravestones, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and silver, revealing through material culture how the inhabitants of Boston were colonial, provincial, metropolitan, and global, all at the same time. Edward S. Cooke, Jr.’s detailed account of materials and furnishing practices demonstrates that Bostonians actively filtered ideas and goods from a variety of sources, combined them with local materials and preferences, and constructed a distinct sense of local identity, a process of hybridization that, the author argues, exhibited a conscious desire to shape a culture as a means to resist a distant, dominant power.

Inventing Boston: Design, Production, and Consumption, 1680–1720 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

History

Cooke, Edward

Americas

Paul Mellon Centre

A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Perform'd in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711: Containing a Journal of All Memorable Transactions ... the Compass; The Taking of the Towns of Pun

Excerpt from A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Perform'd in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711: Containing a Journal of All Memorable Transactions During the Said Voyage; The Winds, Currents, and Variation of the Compass; The Taking of the Towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and Several Prizes, One of Which a Rich Acapulco ShipWnw Tuns, 36 Guns, captfiwoocles Rogers Com, ma'nder, and the Dntchejs, Burthen about 300 Tuns, 30 Guns, Capt. Stephen Courtney mander 3 the following Propofals are made by the Owners to all iuch as fhall enter them felves, and ferve on Board the faid Ships.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Arguments For And Against An Union Between Great Britain And Ireland, Considered (1798)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Kessinger Publishing

English Privateers at Cabo San Lucas: The Descriptive Accounts of Puerto Seguro (Baja California Travels Series)

Dawsons Book Shop

To connoisseurs of modern furniture, names such as Wendell Castle, Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof and George Nakashima are signposts to a revolution in the decorative arts that remains one of the most vital of our time. For the past half-century, the Studio Furniture movement has grown in reaction to the traditionally designed and mass-produced furnishings generally available to Americans. Instead, studio furniture makers offer works that are innovative in design, finely hand-crafted and representative of a unique sensibility--works that stand midway between function and fine art. The Maker's Hand is one of the first, and to date the most authoritative, books about the Studio Furniture movement. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, it details the history and development of Studio Furniture, from its origins in post-World War II America through its explosion in the "back-to-nature" 60s, metamorphosis in the "techno" 70s and professional emergence in the 80s. Along the way, the authors show how changes in American tastes, technology and culture have influenced these pieces. Also included are extensive biographies of some 40 furniture makers, as well as guides to the main exhibitions, schools and galleries. Profusely illustrated with works by Castle, Maloof, Molly Gregory, John Cederquist, Judy Kensley McKie and many others, this is an invaluable guide to the inventive, often witty, always surprising world of Studio Furniture.

The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture 1940-1990

Arts & Photography

Ward, Gerald W.R.

WARD, Gerald

Cooke, Jr., Edward S.

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MFA Publications

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A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Perform'd in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711: Containing A Journal of all Memorable Transactions ... of the Compass, the Taking of Towns of Puna A

Legare Street Press

The prospectiue glasse of vvarre Shevving you a glimps of vvarres mystery, in her admirable stratagems, policies, wayes; in victualling of an armie, ... finding out the enemies purposes (1628)

Military

EEBO Editions, ProQuest

Arguments for and against an union between Great Britain and Ireland, considered; to which is prefixed, a proposal on the same subject, by Josiah Tucker, ...

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T106475 The final page contains advertisements for "books printed for Obed. Smith bookseller in Daventry.". London : printed for J. Smith of Daventry, and sold by A. Bettesworth, 1719. 27,[1]p. ; 8°

A sermon preach'd in the parish church of Braden, in Northamptonshire, on April 19. 1719. ... at the funeral of William Ives, Esq; by Ed. Cooke, ...

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A sermon preach'd in the parish church of Braden, in Northamptonshire, on April 19. 1719. ... at the funeral of William Ives, Esq; By Ed. Cooke, ... The second edition.

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