| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-347) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
"How did our modern ideas of physical comfort originate? As John E. Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in the technology of comfort depended on a fashion-conscious public's being made to feel discomfort with surroundings that they had previously perceived as functionally adequate." "Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this work brings together such disparate topics of analysis as climate, fire, food, clothing, the senses, and anxiety - especially about the night. Crowley highlights his arguments with excerpts from historical documents - diaries, travel accounts, politeness manuals, and personal letters - and includes analysis of architectural plans and domestic art (reproduced in the book's many illustrations)."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Households -- United States -- History.
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Households. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Households -- Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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House furnishings -- United States -- History.
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House furnishings. |
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House furnishings -- Great Britain -- History.
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 800-1800 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crowley, John E., 1943- Invention of comfort. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 0801864372 (DLC) 00008958 (OCoLC)43851308 |
| ISBN |
0801875161 (electronic book) |
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9780801875168 (electronic book) |
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9780801864377 (alkaline paper) |
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0801864372 (alkaline paper) |
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