The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
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| Management number | 231881118 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$10.33 | Model Number | 231881118 | ||
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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. Read more
| ASIN | B09RTK59JL |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-0801875168 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 22.9 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 376 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | May 1, 2003 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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