Buying into the world of goods : early consumers in backcountry Virginia

Buying into the world of goods : early consumers in backcountry Virginia

Consumers in backcountry Virginia

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.

xiv, 260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

339.47 M379 2008

(OCoLC)152559154

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-240) and index.
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.
L2009M33

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