Shopping for the Nation: Women's China Collecting in Late-Nineteenth-Century New England
2008 ◽
Vol 81
(1)
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pp. 63-90
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Keyword(s):
The Arts
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Hunting for china in rural New England was more than a shopping expedition; it was a patriotic act, a tribute to America's commerce, and a form of historic preservation. Against the backdrops of nativism, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the Colonial Revival, late-nineteenth-century women sought to return the nation to its Anglo-American roots.