Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America (Revised)

Title: Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America (Revised)
Author: John E Crowley
ISBN: 9780801873157
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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Anthropology 1650340

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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.