tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803969651277143887.post6485684508772977423..comments2024-01-30T04:15:42.071-05:00Comments on British Tars, 1740-1790: Americans throwing the Cargoes of the Tea Ships into the River, at Boston, 1789Kyle Daltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13428848890576823316noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803969651277143887.post-61358595598803535822017-04-11T11:54:58.196-04:002017-04-11T11:54:58.196-04:00If anyone's seeking further reading, this last...If anyone's seeking further reading, this last detail of palm trees was featured in a reading I was just assigned in one of my university courses - Benjamin Schmidt, ‘Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol’, in Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall (eds), Collecting Across Cultures. Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Penn, 2011): 31-57. Essentially, Schmidt argues that the 'exotic geography' of imperial exploration and collection created new symbols in European consumer and visual culture. The ones he discusses, namely feather skirts, bare-breasted women, cannibals, tropical birds, parasols, and palm trees were applied very loosely to any number of non-European settings beyond their original context - which might explain this illustrators use of the palm tree in Boston! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com