A Cultural History of Color: Power and Identity in the Age of Enlightenment

Power and identity in the Enlightenment age - why colours matter In my contribution to volume 4 of Bloomsbury's Cultural History of Color book series, I have analysed the importance of colours in representations of power and in the construction of political identities of the Enlightenment Age. Colours shaped early modern political cultures on many levels from clothing to metaphors of faction. Mainly analysing examples from Europe and Europe's overseas colonies, my chapter relies on newspaper ..