A panorama of the origins, context and mythologies of the objects n which capture the cultural history of women makers and consumers of material society. Notes, index. 501 pp.

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Title

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of the American Myth

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

0679445943

ISBN 13

9780679445944

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

B&W photographs

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Complemented by more than 150 illustrations, an incisive portrait of early industrialization in America chronicles the production of cloth and its influence on the cultural, economic, social, and political world of early America. By the author of the Bancroft Prize-winning A Midwife's Tale. 17,500 first printing.

About the Author

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Formerly a professor of American history at the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of Good Wives (1982) and numerous articles and essays on early American history. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 for A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785--1812. Born and raised in the Rocky Mountain West, she has lived in New England since 1960. During her tenure as a MacArthur Fellow, she assisted in the production of a PBS documentary based on A Midwife’s Tale. Her work is also featured on an award-winning Web site called dohistory.org. She and her husband, Gael Ulrich, are the parents of five grown children.

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