New Nation of Goods The Material Culture of Early America

Name: New Nation of Goods The Material Culture of Early America
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ISBN: 9780812222005

ISBN-10: 0812222008

ISBN-13: 9780812222005

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Jaffee

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption, one that centered on chairs and clocks as well as family portraits and books. How did that new world of goods, represented by Victorian parlors filled with overstuffed furniture and daguerreotype portraits, come into being?A New Nation of Goodshighlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture. As a whole, the book proposes an innovative analysis of…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English