The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
John E. Crowley
How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates inThe Invention of Comfort,changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discoveringdiscomfort 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.
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.
年:
2003
出版:
Paperback
出版社:
Johns Hopkins University Press
语言:
english
页:
376
ISBN 10:
0801873150
ISBN 13:
9780801873157
文件:
PDF, 1.46 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003