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Title Small things in the eighteenth century : the political and personal value of the miniature / edited by Chloe Wigston Smith, University of York ; Beth Fowkes Tobin, Arizona State University
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Contents "The sum of All in All": The Miniature Book and the Nature of Legibility / Abigail Williams -- "Pray What a Pox are Those Damned Strings of Wampum?": British Understandings of Wampum in the Eighteenth Century / Robbie Richardson -- A Box of Tea and the British Empire / Romita Ray
Summary Playful, useful, decorative, revolutionary: small things possess a rich array of meanings, from the ordinary to the extraordinary
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2022)
Subject Miniature objects -- Social aspects
Material culture -- Social aspects
Material culture -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Chloe Wigston, editor.
Tobin, Beth Fowkes, editor.
ISBN 9781108993296
110899329X
9781108999281
110899928X