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Invention of Comfort
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architectural history
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British and Anglo-American homes
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chimney fireplaces
consumer revolution
early modern domesticity
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heating and illumination
landscape architecture
material culture
political economy
vernacular architecture
Product details
- ISBN 9780801873157
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 159 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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.
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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