Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, Andrea Pappas presents a new, multi dimensional view of eighteenth century American culture from a unique perspective. This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from