A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America
- ISBN-10
- 0812222008
- ISBN-13
- 9780812222005
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 424
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-12-02
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- David Jaffee
Description
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.
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