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Material Witnesses - Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia (Paperback)
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Material Witnesses - Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia (Paperback)
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The Chesapeake region of eastern Virginia and Maryland offers a
wealth of evidence for readers and researchers who want to discover
what life was like in early America. In this eagerly anticipated
volume, Camille Wells, one of the foremost experts on
eighteenth-century Virginia architecture, gathers the discoveries
unearthed during a career spent studying the buildings and
plantations across this geographic area. Drawing on the skills and
insights of archaeologists and architectural historians to uncover
and make sense of layers of construction and reconstruction, as
well as material evidence and records ranging from ceramics,
furniture, and textiles to estate inventories and newspaper
advertisements, Wells poses meaningful questions about the past and
proposes new ways to understand the origins of American society.
The research gathered in this cohesive and engaging collection
views the wider history of the colonial and early national periods
through the lens of lauded as well as previously unrecorded sites
in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions. The subjects are equally
wide-ranging, from the way domestic architecture articulates
problems and possibilities that found forceful expression in the
Revolution; to the values and choices made by those who lived in
unprepossessing circumstances as well as those who built statement
gentry houses intended to dominate the landscape. Other essays
address the challenges of discovering historically accurate room
functions and furnishings as well as the way Colonial Revival
attitudes still dominate much of what is imagined about the early
Virginia past. Taken together, these beautifully written and
accessible essays will be essential reading for those interested in
architecture, material culture, and the ways they reveal the
complexities of the nation's history.
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