| Description |
xiv, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia |
|
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
|
| Contents |
In backcountry time -- The business of revolutions: John Hook and the Atlantic world : William Meade's Scottish clock -- Getting the goods: local acquisition in a tobacco economy : the iron plate -- Accounting for life: objects, names, and numbers : the ledger -- Living the backcountry: styles and standards : the Wade cabin in backcountry time -- Setting the stage, playing the part: stores as consumption spaces : ribbons of desire -- Suckey's looking glass: African Americans as consumers : mirrors and meanings -- Country gentleman in a new country: John Hook's beef |
| Summary |
"How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin here provides answers to these questions by examining the texture of trade on the edge of the upper Shenandoah Valley between 1760 and 1810." "Reconstructing the world of one country merchant, John Hook, Martin reveals how the acquisition of consumer goods created and validated a set of ideas about taste, fashion, and lifestyle in a particular place at a particular time. Her analysis of Hook's account ledger illuminates the everyday wants, transactions, and tensions recorded within and brings some of Hook's customers to life: a planter looking for just the right clock, a farmer in search of nails, a young woman and her friends out shopping on their own, and a slave woman choosing a looking glass."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-240) and index |
| Subject |
Hook, John, 1745-1808.
|
|
Consumer behavior -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
|
|
Consumption (Economics) -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
|
|
Country life -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
|
|
Material culture -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
|
|
Material culture -- Virginia -- 18th century -- History.
|
|
Merchants -- Virginia -- Biography.
|
| SUBJECT |
Virginia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143780 -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006124
|
|
Virginia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143780 -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012474
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
| LC no. |
2007024539 |
| ISBN |
0801887275 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
|
9780801887277 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
|
