| Description |
xvii, 699 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Crowell, ©1976. |
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"A Morningside book"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-636) and index. |
| Contents |
BOOK ONE: Peace and learning. Calendar for February 1763-August 1770. Part One: Culture in British America between the Treaty of Paris and the Stamp Act, 1763-1765. Commencement: 1763 -- The art world -- Musical life -- The literary scene -- The theatre. Part Two: Demonstrations--American culture 1765-1770. Stamp Act protests: August-December 1765 -- Excursus: Whig sentimentalism -- Benjamin West's American school in London: June 1763-early 1766 -- Charles Willson Peale fles to New England: summer 1765 -- Copley's Boy with Squirrel: fall 1765 -- Douglass' new troupe in Charleston: October 25-November 4, 1765 -- Repeal of the Stamp Act: January-May 1766 -- Hopkinson and Peale in London: July 1766-Spring 1767 -- Success of Boy with Squirrel: August 1766 -- Opening of the Southwark theatre: November 1766; the first American actor; the first American play, the Prince of Parthia: April 24, 1767 -- The Townshend Acts: June 1767; liberty songs and poems: 1768-69 -- West's Agrippina, Peale's Pitt: c. Spring 1767-Spring 1769 -- Arrival of John Henry: August 1767; the Virginia Company of Comedians; the American Company thwarted again in Charleston: August 1769 -- British troops in Boston: October 1768-March 1770 -- Repeal of the Townshend Acts: April 1770; Statue of King George raised in New York: August 23, 1770. |
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BOOK TWO: Arts and arms. Calendar for September 1770-December 1783. Part One: Culture in British American during the 'Quiet Period', 1770-1773. Commencement: 1770 -- The art world -- Musical life -- The literary scene -- The theatre. Part Two: Battles--American culture 1773-1783. The Tea Act and the Boston Port Bill: May 1773-September 1774 -- Copley in Europe: July 1774-March 1775 -- The first Continental Congress: September-October 1774 -- Lexington, Concord, Bunker's Hill: April-June 1775 -- The siege of Boston: July 1775-March 1776 -- Outside Boston: Spring 1774-spring 1776 -- The second Continental Congress declares independence: fall 1775-summer 1776 -- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania: summer 1776-winter 1777-78 -- Excursus: music in the army -- Philadelphia and New York: summer 1778-summer 1780 -- The Andre affair: fall 1780 -- The American school: 1777-1782 -- Billings and law; the Yale poets: New England, 1777-1782 -- Charleston and Yorktown: May 1780-October 1781 -- Philadelphia: November 1781-November 1782 -- 1783: peace returning. |
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BOOK THREE: Virtue against luxury. Calendar for January 1784-April 1789. Part One: American culture between the peace and the Constitutional Convention, 1784-1787. Commencement: 1783 -- The art world -- Musical life -- The literary scene -- The theatre. Part Two: Parades--American culture 1787-1789. The Constitution: May 1787-June 1788 -- Late developments during the first presidential election. The first American songsters; the first American novel; the first American landscape paintings; the repeal of the anti-theatre laws: November 1788-March 1789 -- The inauguration of Washington: April 1789. |
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Arts, American -- 18th century.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Art and the revolution.
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American Revolution (1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
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Arts, American. (OCoLC)fst00817891
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799
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| Genre/Form |
Art. (OCoLC)fst01423702
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0231062958 (pbk.) |
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9780231062954 (pbk.) |
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023106294X (hard) |
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9780231062947 (hard) |
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