The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America

by John E. Crowley

Book Overview

How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory.

Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this pathbreaking work brings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801873150
• ISBN13: 9780801873157
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher