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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (Studies in Industry and Society, 10) (Hardcover)

by Professor Edward S. Cooke Jr. (Author) "In preindustrial America, wood was the dominant material for construction, as well as the main fuel for heating and cooking..." (more)
Key Phrases: New York, New Haven, New England (more...)

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"Edward S. Cooke has written an exhaustive and sophisticated interdisciplinary study comparing and contrasting the 'social economy' of furniture and furniture makers in two western Connecticut communities... Cooke has combined the social and economic historians research in traditional records with material culture's analysis of artifacts. The synthesis is certainly more than the sum of its parts... Thoughtful and challenging." -- H. Roger King, History

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Cooke 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.

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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (July 18, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801852536
ISBN-13: 978-0801852534
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,441,236 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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New York, New Haven, New England, Mattatuck Museum, Long Island, Shadrach Osborn, Ebenezer Booth, Elijah Booth, Joel Booth, Charles Prindle, Connecticut River Valley, General Assembly, Nicholas Jebine, Bartimeus Fabrique, Litchfield County, New London County, New Milford, West Indies, Connecticut State Library, David Stiles, Chipstone Foundation, Collection of Newtown Historical Society, Curtis Hinman, Ephraim Munson, Gary Bacon

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The World of John Cleaveland: Family and Community in Eighteenth-Century England by Christopher M. Jedrey on 5 pages
Craftsman in Early America (Winterthur Conference//(Report)) by Ian M. G. Quimby on 4 pages
American Furniture: 2 by Joseph Downs on 4 pages
Perspectives on American Furniture (Winterthur Conference//(Report)) by Gerald W. R. Ward on 4 pages
American Furniture 2000 by Luke Beckerdite on 4 pages

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Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776 by Jon Butler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England by Peter Temin in Back Matter
The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production (Studies in Industry and Society) by Professor Lindy Biggs in Front Matter
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (Early American Studies) by Donna J. Rilling in Back Matter

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