The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Vintage)

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They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of Bancroft Award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.
In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history..../ The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Vintage) / hearth rug

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Material Artifacts Spun Into Historical Silk : The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Vintage)

In the Age of Homespun, Ulrich examines "homespun" artifacts or artifacts relating to the creation and warehouse of homespun goods in early colonial America. Each part of her text is devoted to a particular artifact, such as an Indian basket, spinning wheels, a Niddy-Noddy, a chimneypiece, a pocketbook, linens, and a cupboard.

However, the chapters are not merely about these artifacts. Instead, Ulrich uses the artifacts as a lens or a car straight through which she examines the complicated social, cultural, economic, and political dynamics of the time period the artifact stems from. Further, Ulrich uses these articles to "write" history--women's history--that has largely been unwritten in history texts.

Each part of her text really undermines the myth of an idyllic and pastoral society and provides a tantalizing look at the complexity of the times.

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