The Invention of comfort [electronic resource] : sensibilities & design in early modern Britain & early America / John E. Crowley.
By: Crowley, John E.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: BookPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001Description: xi, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Households -- United States -- History | Households -- Great Britain -- History | House furnishings -- United States -- History | House furnishings -- Great Britain -- History | United States -- Social life and customs | Great Britain -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306/.0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view"Notes": p. 293-347.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Commodious comfort : hall and hearth, chamber and chimney -- Civil comfort : mansion houses -- Colonial comfort : vernacular and elegant options -- Decent comfort : candles and mirrors -- Convenient comfort : political economy -- Enlightened comfort : stoves and lamps -- Picturesque comfort : the cottage -- Healthy comfort : the piazza -- Gendered comfort : house design books.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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