Book Talk with Ashli White "Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
Monday, September 18, 2023 6:30pm
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265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Join us to celebrate this new book by Ashli White,
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History:
Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the
Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Focusing on a range of objects—ceramics and furniture,
garments and accessories, prints, maps, and public
amusements—White shows how material culture held political
meaning for diverse populations. Enslaved and free, women
and men, poor and elite—all turned to things as a means to
realize their varied and sometimes competing visions of
revolutionary change.
“By excavating the power of material objects and visual
images to express the fervor and fear of the revolutionary era,
Ashli White brings us closer to more fully embodied, more
fully human, figures.”—Richard Rabinowitz, author of Objects
of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story
“In this important, innovative book, Ashli White moves nimbly
between North America, Europe, and the Caribbean to
capture the richness and complexity of material culture in the
Age of Revolutions.”—Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins
University.
Ashli White is Associate Professor of History at the University
of Miami, where she specializes in the history of early North
America and its ties to the Atlantic world. Her new book,
Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, was published by Yale
University Press in 2023, and she is also the author of
Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early
Republic (Johns Hopkins, 2010). In 2018, she was the associate
curator and co-author of the catalog for Antillean Visions, an
exhibition at the Lowe Art Museum that explored over 500
years of Caribbean maps.
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