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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Main Author: Jaffee, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Series:Early American studies
Subjects:
1800-1899
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Social change > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
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Consumption (Economics) > Connecticut River Valley > History > 19th century.
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Community life.
Consumption (Economics)
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Manners and customs.
Material culture.
Middle class.
Social change.
Social conditions
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