LEADER 05099oam 22007334a 450 001 9910524706803321 005 20210915045528.0 010 $a1-4214-3605-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460971 035 $a(OCoLC)1128066676 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78516 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460971 100 $a20190926h20191996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaking Furniture in Preindustrial America$eThe Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut /$fEdward S. Cooke, Jr 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages :)$cillustrations) 225 0 $aStudies in industry and society ;$v10 300 $aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. 300 $aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License 300 $aOriginally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1996 311 $a1-4214-3606-X 311 $a1-4214-3607-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of Tables and Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Need for the Artisanal Voice (starting p. 3) -- 1 The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-1820 (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 49) -- 4 Socioeconomic Structure in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 69) -- 5 Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 91) -- 6 Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown (starting p. 118) -- 7 Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury (starting p. 151) -- Conclusion: The Response to Market Capitalism (starting p. 190) -- Appendix A: Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 201) -- Appendix B: Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 217) -- Notes (starting p. 233) -- Glossary of Furniture Terms (starting p. 273) -- Note on Sources and Methods (starting p. 277) -- Index (starting p. 285) 330 $aIn Making Furniture in Preindustrial America Edward S. Cooke Jr. offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities. Drawing on both documentary and artifactual sources, Cooke explores the interplay among producer, process, and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cooke explains, the yeoman town of Newtown relied on native joiners whose work satisfied the expectations of their fellow townspeople. These traditionalists combined craftwork with farming and made relatively plain, conservative furniture. By contrast, the typical joiner in the neighboring gentry town of Woodbury was the immigrant innovator. Born and raised elsewhere in Connecticut and serving a diverse clientele, these craftsmen were free of the cultural constraints that affected their Newtown contemporaries. Relying almost entirely on furnituremaking for their livelihood, they were free to pay greater attention to stylistically sensitive features than to mere function. 410 0$aStudies in industry and society ;$v10. 606 $aM©obeltischlerei$2swd 606 $aFurniture industry and trade$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00936544 606 $aFurniture$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00936488 606 $aEconomic history$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00901974 606 $aFurniture industry and trade$zConnecticut$xHistory 606 $aFurniture$zConnecticut$zWoodbury$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFurniture$zConnecticut$zWoodbury$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFurniture$zConnecticut$zNewtown$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFurniture$zConnecticut$zNewtown$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aNeuengland$2swd 607 $aConnecticut$zWoodbury$2fast 607 $aConnecticut$zNewtown$2fast 607 $aConnecticut$2fast 607 $aWoodbury (Conn.)$xEconomic conditions 607 $aNewtown (Conn.)$xEconomic conditions 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 00$aM©obeltischlerei. 615 0$aFurniture industry and trade. 615 0$aFurniture. 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aFurniture industry and trade$xHistory. 615 0$aFurniture$xHistory 615 0$aFurniture$xHistory 615 0$aFurniture$xHistory 615 0$aFurniture$xHistory 700 $aCooke$b Edward S$01138728 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524706803321 996 $aMaking Furniture in Preindustrial America$92784196 997 $aUNINA