Buying into the world of goods early consumers in backcountry Virginia / [electronic resource] :
Consumers in backcountry Virginia
Ann Smart Martin.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
- xiv, 260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps.
- Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia .
- Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-240) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Hook, John, 1745-1808.
Consumption (Economics)--History--Virginia--18th century. Consumer behavior--History--United States--18th century. Merchants--Virginia--Biography. Material culture--History.--Virginia--18th century Country life--History--Virginia--18th century.