Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut /

In Making Furniture in Preindustrial America Edward S. Cooke Jr. offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities. Drawing on both documentary and artifa...

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Tác giả chính: Cooke, Edward S.
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
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  • List of Tables and Charts
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Need for the Artisanal Voice (starting p. 3)
  • 1 The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-1820 (starting p. 13)
  • 2 The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner (starting p. 33)
  • 3 The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 49)
  • 4 Socioeconomic Structure in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 69)
  • 5 Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 91)
  • 6 Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown (starting p. 118)
  • 7 Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury (starting p. 151)
  • Conclusion: The Response to Market Capitalism (starting p. 190)
  • Appendix A: Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 201)
  • Appendix B: Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 217)
  • Notes (starting p. 233)
  • Glossary of Furniture Terms (starting p. 273)
  • Note on Sources and Methods (starting p. 277)
  • Index (starting p. 285)