cam a22 4 4500 530100029 CHVBK 20181027030440.0 010501s2002 nyuab b||| 001 0 eng| 2001029862 011080878 Uk 0-679-76644-8 pbk. 978-0-679-76644-5 pbk. (OCoLC)46969845 (NEBIS)011286543 (OCoLC)46969845 DLC ger SzZuIDS NEBIS UZH-HS rda F8 .U47 2001 974/.03 21 15.85 bcl 71.56 bcl HD 375 rvk Ulrich Laurel Thatcher 1938- (DE-588)1055719415 Verfasser aut The age of homespun objects and stories in the creation of an American myth Laurel Thatcher Ulrich First Vintage Books edition New York Vintage Books November 2002 501 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-478) and index Publisher's description: Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth--and of history--in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods--Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy-noddy, bed coverings, silk embroidery, a pocketbook, a linen tablecloth, a coverlet and a rose blanket, and an unfinished stocking--provide the key to a transformed understanding of cultural encounter, frontier war, Revolutionary politics, international commerce, and early industrialization in America. We discover how ideas about cloth and clothing affected relations between English settlers and their Algonkian neighbors. We see how an English production system based on a clear division of labor--men doing the weaving and women the spinning--broke down in the colonial setting, becoming first marginalized, then feminized, then politicized, and how the new system both prepared the way for and was sustained by machine-powered spinning. Pulling these divergent threads together into a rich and revealing tapestry of--the age of homespun--Ulrich demonstrates how ordinary objects reveal larger economic and social structures, and, in particular, how early Americans and their descendants made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert identities, shape relationships, and create history Sozialgeschichte 1676-1851 gnd 1775-1899 fast Alltagskultur (DE-588)4122782-7 gnd Textilien (DE-588)4059615-1 gnd Textile fabrics Social aspects New England History 19th century Textile crafts New England History 19th century Weaving Social aspects New England History 19th century Clothing and dress Social aspects New England History 19th century Material culture New England History 19th century National characteristics, American Clothing and dress Social aspects fast Economic history fast Material culture fast National characteristics, American fast Social conditions fast Textile crafts fast Textile fabrics Social aspects fast Weaving Social aspects fast Materiële cultuur gtt Textielkunst gtt Handwerk gtt Huishoudelijke artikelen gtt Dagelijks leven gtt Textile fabrics Social aspects New England History 19th century sears Textile crafts New England History 19th century sears Weaving Social aspects New England History sears Clothing and dress Social aspects New England History 19th century sears Material culture New England History 19th century sears National characteristics, American sears Neuengland (DE-588)4075306-2 gnd New England History 1775-1865 New England Social conditions 19th century New England Economic conditions 19th century New England fast New England History 1775-1865 sears New England Social conditions 19th century sears New England Economic conditions 19th century sears History fast UHS-201810 nebis EN NEBIS 100 1- Ulrich Laurel Thatcher 1938- (DE-588)1055719415 Verfasser aut BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 NEBIS UHS UHS ULHS ND 18832