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Mahogany : the costs of luxury in early America / Jennifer L. Anderson.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HD9769.M33 U625 2012
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Lippincott Library HD9769.M33 U625 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Jennifer L., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mahogany industry--United States--History--18th century.
- Mahogany industry.
- Mahogany--United States--History--18th century.
- Mahogany.
- History.
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Physical Description:
- x, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- A new species of elegance
- The gold standard of Jamaican mahogany
- Supplying the Empire with mahogany
- The bitters and the sweets of trade
- Slavery in the rain forest
- Redefining mahogany in the Early Republic
- Mastering nature and the challenge of mahogany
- Democratizing mahogany and the advent of steam
- An old species of elegance.
- Supplying the Empire with mahogany
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Rosenlund fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780674048713
- 0674048717
- OCLC:
- 780415769
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