Mahogany The Costs of Luxury in Early America

Name: Mahogany The Costs of Luxury in Early America
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ISBN: 9780674048713

ISBN-10: 0674048717

ISBN-13: 9780674048713

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jennifer L. Anderson

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In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly displaced local furniture woods as the height of fashion. Over the next century, consumer demand for mahogany set in motion elaborate schemes to secure the trees and transform their rough-hewn logs into exquisite objects. But beneath the polished gleam of this furniture lies a darker, hidden story of human and environmental exploitation.Mahogany traces the path of this wood through many hands, from source to sale: from the enslaved African woodcutters, including skilled “huntsmen” who located the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English