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Previous article FreeBooks ReceivedPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreEdgar Peters Bowron, ed. Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America. Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America. State College: Frick Collection and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. 204 pp.; 15 black-and white and 43 color illustrations, notes, references, list of artists, index. $69.95.Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 592 pp.; 102 black-and-white illustrations, 27 color plates, 7 tables, 1 map. $80.00.François Brunet, ed. Circulation. Terra Foundation Essays, vol. 3. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2017. 224 pp.; 58 color illustrations, notes. $24.95 (paper).Laurie J. Bryant. A Modest Homestead: Life in Small Adobe Homes in Salt Lake City, 1850–1897. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press and Utah State Historical Society, 2017. 296 pp.; 109 black-and-white photographs, 10 black-and-white drawings, 4 black-and-white maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 (paper).Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, and S. Brent Plate, eds. Religion in Museums: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. 265 pp.; 33 black-and-white illustrations, notes, references, index. $26.95 (paper).Lydia Edwards. How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. 211 pp.; 200 color illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $33.95 (paper).Kelly Erby. Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 176 pp.; 32 black-and-white photographs, notes, index. $22.50 (paper).Jodi Kanter. Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush. Theater in the Americas. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. 198 pp.; 17 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (paper).Jeremy R. Kinney. Reinventing the Propeller: Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 368 pp.; 25 black-and-white illustrations, 4 tables, essay on sources, index. $120.00.Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson. Quilts and Human Rights. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 232 pp.; 105 color photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (paper).Susan E. Maycock and Charles M. Sullivan. Building Old Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. 968 pp.; 703 black-and-white and 412 color illustrations, notes, bibliography, architects and builders index, street address index, general index. $49.95.Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims. Canoes: A Natural History in North America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 416 pp.; 95 black-and-white and 228 color plates, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.William Thomas Okie. The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 303 pp.; 28 black-and-white illustrations, 7 tables, notes, index. $34.99.Jennifer L. Roberts, ed. Scale. Terra Foundation Essays, vol. 2. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2016. 256 pp.; 80 color illustrations, notes. $24.95 (paper). Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Winterthur Portfolio Volume 51, Number 1Spring 2017 Published for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/694308 © 2017 by The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.