TY - BOOK AU - Martin,Ann Smart ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Buying into the world of goods: early consumers in backcountry Virginia T2 - Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia AV - HC107.V83 C66 2008 U1 - 339.4/70975509033 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Hook, John, KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Virginia KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Consumer behavior KW - United States KW - Merchants KW - Biography KW - Material culture KW - Country life KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3318548 ER -