{"product_id":"making-furniture-in-preindustrial-america-9781421436050","title":"Making Furniture in Preindustrial America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCooke offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities.   Winner of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc.'s Charles F. Montgomery PrizeOriginally published in 1996. In Making Furniture in Preindustrial America Edward S. Cooke Jr. offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities. Drawing on both documentary and artifactual sources, Cooke explores the interplay among producer, process, and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cooke explains, the yeoman town of Newtown relied on native joiners whose work satisfied the exp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward S. Cooke has written an exhaustive and sophisticated interdisciplinary study comparing and contrasting the 'social economy' of furniture and furniture makers in two western Connecticut communities . . . Cooke has combined the social and economic historians research in traditional records with material culture's analysis of artifacts. The synthesis is certainly more than the sum of its parts . . . Thoughtful and challenging.\u003cbr\u003e—H. Roger King, \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables and Charts \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. The Need for the Artis anal Voice \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-£820 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. SocioeconomiSc tructure in Newtown and Woodbury \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury \u003cbr\u003eConclusion. The Response to Market Capitalism \u003cbr\u003eAppendix A. Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-£820 \u003cbr\u003eAppendix B. Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, I 760-r 820 \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eGlossary of Furniture Terms \u003cbr\u003eNote on Sources and Methods \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408135922007,"sku":"9781421436050","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421436050.jpg?v=1730501717","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-furniture-in-preindustrial-america-9781421436050","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}