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

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Tác giả: Edward S Cooke

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 1421436051

ISBN-10: 1421436078

ISBN-13: 978-1421436050

ISBN-13: 978-1421436067

ISBN-13: 978-1421436074

Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.476841 Secondary industries and services

Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 295 pages) : , illustrations)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 196428

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 artifactual sources, Cooke explores the interplay among producer, process, and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cooke explains, the yeoman town of Newtown relied on native joiners whose work satisfied the expectations of their fellow townspeople. These traditionalists combined craftwork with farming and made relatively plain, conservative furniture. By contrast, the typical joiner in the neighboring gentry town of Woodbury was the immigrant innovator. Born and raised elsewhere in Connecticut and serving a diverse clientele, these craftsmen were free of the cultural constraints that affected their Newtown contemporaries. Relying almost entirely on furnituremaking for their livelihood, they were free to pay greater attention to stylistically sensitive features than to mere function.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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