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Mahogany : the costs of luxury in early America /
"In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly displaced local furniture woods as the height of fashion. Over the next century, consumer demand fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A new species of elegance
- The gold standard of Jamaican mahogany
- Supplying the Empire with mahogany
- The bitters and the sweets of trade
- Slavery in the rain forest
- Redefining mahogany in the Early Republic
- Mastering nature and the challenge of mahogany
- Democratizing mahogany and the advent of steam
- An old species of elegance.