How did our modern ideas of physical comfort originate? This study demonstrates that changes in the technology of comfort depended on a fashion-conscious public being made to feel discomfort with surroundings they had previously preceived as functionally adequate.
- ISBN10 0801864372
- ISBN13 9780801864377
- Publish Date 1 January 2001
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 September 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 376
- Language English