A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America
David Jaffee
424 pages | 7 x 10 | 10 color, 107 b/w illus.
Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2200-5 | $27.50 | £18.00
A volume in the Early American Studies series
Winner of the 2011 Fred Kniffen Book Prize of the Pioneer America Society
"A New Nation of Goods has much to recommend it. Interdisciplinary, the work leverages a wealth of sources, from probate inventories and census records to patent applications and auction catalogs. It . . . asks us to reconsider many of our long-standing assumptions about the diffusion of culture in rural communities and the relative pace and influence of market activity."–Journal of the Early Republic
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