Field Guide to American Antique Furniture: A Unique Visual System for Identifying the Style of Virtually Any Piece of American Antique Furniture
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.
| Country | USA |
| Brand | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Manufacturer | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Binding | Paperback |
| ItemPartNumber | 68, 68 black & white illustrations |
| ReleaseDate | 2003-02-28 |
| UnitCount | 1 |
| EANs | 9780801873157 |
