Buying into the world of goods early consumers in backcountry Virginia /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Table of 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.