The Invention of Comfort

A history and analysis of the development of domestic design in early modern Britain and America. How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in  The Invention of Comfort,  changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering  dis comfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory. Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to g