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Buying Into The World Of Goods "Early Consumers In Backcountry Virginia"

Early Consumers In Backcountry Virginia

Buying Into The World Of Goods "Early Consumers In Backcountry Virginia". Early Consumers In Backcountry Virginia

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  • ISBN:9780801887277
  • Editorial: Johns Hopkins University Press
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  • Nº Pág.:320
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How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin here provides answers to these questions by examining the texture of trade on the edge of the upper Shenandoah Valley between 1760 and 1810.Reconstructing the world of one country merchant, John Hook, Martin reveals how the acquisition of consumer goods created and validated a set of ideas about taste, fashion, and lifestyle in a particular place at a particular time. Her analysis of Hook's account ledger illuminates the everyday wants, transactions, and tensions recorded within and brings some of Hook's customers to life: a planter looking for just the right clock, a farmer in search of nails, a young woman and her friends out shopping on their own, and a slave woman choosing a looking glass.This innovative approach melds fascinating narratives with sophisticated analysis of material culture to distill large abstract social and economic systems into intimate triangulations among merchants, customers, and objects. Martin finds that objects not only reflect culture, they are the means to create it.

Introduction: In Backcountry Time 1
1 The Business of Revolutions: John Hook and the Atlantic World: William Mead's Scottish Clock 11
2 Getting the Goods: Local Acquisition in a Tobacco Economy: The Iron Plate 42
3 Accounting for Life: Objects, Names, and Numbers: The Ledger 67
4 Living the Backcountry: Styles and Standards: The Wade Cabin in Backcountry Time 94
5 Setting the Stage, Playing the Part: Stores as Shopping Spaces: Ribbons of Desire 145
6 Suckey's Looking Glass: African Americans as Consumers: Mirrors and Meanings 173
Epilogue: Country Gentleman in a New Country: John Hook's Beef 194
Notes 205
Essay on Sources 241

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