A new nation of goods : the material culture of early America /

A new nation of goods : the material culture of early America /

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 daguer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaffee, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Material culture > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Artisans > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Villages > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Social change > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Community life > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Middle class > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Consumption (Economics) > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
Connecticut River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Connecticut River Valley > Social conditions > 19th century.

Evans: Library Stacks

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