A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (Early American Studies)

by David Jaffee (Author)

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  2011

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  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.