The Invention of Comfort : Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America.

The Invention of Comfort : Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America.

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Annotation How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory. Written in an...

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Main Author: Crowley, John E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Boulder : Johns Hopkins University Press, NetLibrary, Inc. [distributor] May 2003 ;
Subjects:
Households > United States > History.
Households > Great Britain > History.
House furnishings > United States > History.
House furnishings > Great Britain > History.
House furnishings.
Households.
Manners and customs.
United States > Social life and customs.
Great Britain > Social life and customs.
Great Britain.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: GT481.U6C76 2001
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