The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth Parallel Programming the twelve-year-old son he only

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ISBN13: 9780394819679 ISBN10: 0394819675 Material Type: paperback

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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth Parallel Programming the twelve-year-old son he onlyUsing objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth and of history in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy noddy, bed coverings, silk embroidery, a pocketbook, a