A New Nation of Goods

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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 daguerreotype portraits, come into being A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture. New Download A New Nation of Goods Author David Jaffee For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Fascinating studies of the way the taste for things evolves in the early Republic in the crucial period before mass markets really take hold Jaffee s originality lies in how he correlates changes in the structure of knowledge with the commercialization of the countryside showing how self education and a thirst for books, newspapers, almanacs and the company of like minded readers over lapped with appetites for new things such as clocks, portraits, mirrors,comfortable chairs andfu Fascinating studies of the way the taste for things evolves in the early Republic in the crucial period before mass markets really take hold Jaffee s originality lies in how he correlates changes in the structure of knowledge with the commercialization of the countryside showing how self education and a thirst for books, newspapers, almanacs and the company of like minded readers over lapped with appetites for new things such as clocks, portraits, mirrors,comfortable chairs andfunctional tables His discussion of synergies between ideas and objects is grounded in enthusiasm for material culture and appealing examples drawn from northeastern New England that allowed craft production and reading in winter to alternate with the busy summer farm season His well written essays are renderedpiquant by a current reader s awareness of certain resonances with the digital world of today the thirst for cultural knowledge, out...In trying to be a history of American material culture this book falls short Too much analysis and not enough context.

A New Nation of Goods
  • English
  • 05 January 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 424 pages
  • 0812242572
  • David Jaffee
  • A New Nation of Goods