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The Invention of Comfort

Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America

J.E. Crowley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2001
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6437-7 (ISBN)

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How did our modern ideas of physical comfort originate? This study demonstrates that changes in the technology of comfort depended on a fashion-conscious public being made to feel discomfort with surroundings they had previously preceived as functionally adequate.

John E. Crowley is George Munro Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I: TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL AMENITY
Chapter 1. Commodious Comfort: Hall and Hearth, Chamber and Chimney
Chapter 2. Civil Comfort: Mansion Houses
Chapter 3. Colonial Comfort: Vernacular and Elegant Options
Part II: FROM LUXURY TO COMFORT
Chapter 4. Decent Comfort: Candles and Mirrors
Chapter 5. Convenient Comfort: Political Economy
Chapter 6. Enlightened Comfort: Stoves and Lamps
Part III: THE LANDSCAPE OF COMFORT
Chapter 7. Picturesque Comfort: The Cottage
Chapter 8. Healthy Comfort: The Piazza
Chapter 9. Gendered Comfort: House Design Books
Conclusion
Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2001
Zusatzinfo	68 illustrations
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	705 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8018-6437-2 / 0801864372
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-6437-7 / 9780801864377
Zustand	Neuware