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The Invention of Comfort : Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
The Invention of Comfort Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
Author: John E. Crowley
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 historia...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801873157
ISBN-10: 0801873150
Publication Date: 1/22/2003
Pages: 376
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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