The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North East America, 1750-1900

'The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North East America, 1750-1900, significantly expands our understanding of transatlantic cultural exchange between the U.S. and Britain, both by challenging the U.S.-centeredness of North American Studies and by extending its consideration of cross-cultural transatlantic influence well into the nineteenth century. This book inaugurates a new critical vantage point for reinterpreting the cultural connections between the two countries. It is especially attractive for the way it situates literary readings firmly within material culture contexts, its ample illustrations offering readers a more tactile experience of the goods and ideas being discussed.' Phillip H. Round, University of Iowa, USA 'The inclusion of essays from art history, geography, and architectural history, alongside the more conventional transatlantic literary criticism, demonstrates the editors' commitment to the inter- or multidisciplinary growth and collaboration within this exciting field of study.' Journal of Historical Geography '... the edited collection offers an appropriate form for different voices to present perspectives that capture the spirit of heterogeneity, trade and diversity that characterised the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world ... all of the ten chapters offer especially fine examples of transatlantic scholarship on the period.' Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies