Buying into the world of goods : early consumers in backcountry Virginia / Ann Smart Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Ann Smart, 1960-

Series:

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Virginia--History--18th century.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumer behavior--United States--History--18th century.

Consumer behavior.

Hook, John, 1745-1808.

Hook, John.

Merchants--Virginia--Biography.

Merchants.

Material culture--Virginia--History--18th century.

Material culture.

Manners and customs.

History.

Virginia.

Country life--Virginia--History--18th century.

Country life.

Virginia--Social life and customs--History--18th century.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Consumers in backcountry Virginia

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-240) and index.

ISBN:

9780801887277

0801887275

OCLC:

152559154

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