The Invention of Comfort
Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
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.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8018-7315-7
- EAN: 9780801873157
- Produktnummer: 1141287
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Masse: H16.0 cm x B28.7 cm x D2.9 cm 576 g
- Abbildungen: 68 Illustrations, black and white
- Gewicht: 576
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
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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