[DOC] The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment by Jesse LeCavalier in Arts-Photography

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Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress; historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey; exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use; Anishanslin unifies both; examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced; wore; and represented this object: a London weaver; one of early modern Britainrsquo;s few women silk designers; a Philadelphia merchantrsquo;s wife; and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis; Anishanslin shows how making; buying; and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together; while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning; identity; natural history; politics; and trade; Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.