The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America by Crowley, John E.

The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801873157)

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The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America by Crowley, John E.

The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America

$29.00
The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America by Crowley, John E.

The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America

$29.00
Format: Paperback
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How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory.

Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this pathbreaking work brings together such disparate topics of analysis as climate, fire, food, clothing, the senses, and anxiety--especially about the night.



Author: John E. Crowley
ISBN-10: 0801873150
ISBN-13: 9780801873157
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2003
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.98w x 0.97d
By John E. Crowley
By John E. Crowley
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John E. Crowley is the George Munro Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He is currently studying the creation of a global landscape in British visual culture c. 1750-1820.

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