Edward S Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward S Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eco-Aesthetics as an Organizing Principle in Global Material Culture
Green woodworking has a long history throughout the world. By introducing the notion of “eco-aesthetics,” that is, the material way that makers negotiate a sustainable relationship between humankind and nature in philosophy and built form, this essay proposes a nuanced material culture approach to understanding the ideological constructs of green woodworking. This methodology strives to reorientate the researcher’s gaze from the aesthetic and for…
Utensils and Metallurgical Knowledge in South Asia
The Material Culture of Furniture Production in the British Colonies
Artifacts have long been markers of wealth, status, self-identity, or taste. As a result, most studies of social distinction in British and American material culture have tended to focus upon the consumption/possession perspective. To explore the production side of material culture distinction, this chapter focuses upon furniture history, examining the structures of furniture making in colonial British society. Comparative exploration of America …
Face Value
Back in 1994 Cary Carson contributed a 215-page chapter entitled “The Consumer Revolution in Colonial British America: Why Demand?” to a collection of essays published as Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (edited by Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert). Although the volume had a small print run, Carson's contribution quickly became a classic in material culture studies for its bibliographical richnes…
The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763–98, Vol. 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798
Modern Craft and the American Experience
Windsor-Chair Making in America
Reviewed by: Windsor-Chair Making in America: From Craft Shop to Consumer Edward S. Cooke Jr. (bio) Windsor-Chair Making in America: From Craft Shop to Consumer. By Nancy Goyne Evans . Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2006. Pp. xv+475. $65. Nancy Evans, who for more than forty years has painstakingly researched the Windsor chair, a plank-seat, turned-leg chair form popular from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, has written…
Making Furniture in the Salisbury Iron Region
Making Furniture in the Salisbury Iron Region: The Case of Bates How Edward S. Cooke Jr. (bio) Figures Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Bates How, Chest of Drawers, northwestern Connecticut, 1795. Cherry, eastern white pine; H: 38H in.; W: 40 in.; D: 21 in. The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, 1930.2154. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Pencil inscription on the inside of the back…
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
A study of the furniture-makers, social structure, household possessions and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighbouring New England communities. Drawing on documentary and artifactual sources, the author explores the interplay among producer, process and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latt…
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
Journal Article Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut. By Edward S. Cooke Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv, 295 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5253-6.) Get access Wayne Franklin Wayne Franklin Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997…
The Furniture of Coastal North Carolina, 1700-1820 . John Bivins, Jr
History and the Art Museum
Master Craftsmen of Newport
Eastern Shore, Virginia, Raised-Panel Furniture, 1730-1830 . James R. Melchor , N. Gordon Lohr , Marilyn S. Melchor
Face Value
Back in 1994 Cary Carson contributed a 215-page chapter entitled “The Consumer Revolution in Colonial British America: Why Demand?” to a collection of essays published as Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (edited by Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert). Although the volume had a small print run, Carson's contribution quickly became a classic in material culture studies for its bibliographical richnes…
Eastern Shore, Virginia, Raised-Panel Furniture, 1730-1830 . James R. Melchor , N. Gordon Lohr , Marilyn S. Melchor
Master Craftsmen of Newport
History and the Art Museum
The Furniture of Coastal North Carolina, 1700-1820 . John Bivins, Jr
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
Journal Article Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut. By Edward S. Cooke Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv, 295 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5253-6.) Get access Wayne Franklin Wayne Franklin Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997…
Making Furniture in the Salisbury Iron Region
Making Furniture in the Salisbury Iron Region: The Case of Bates How Edward S. Cooke Jr. (bio) Figures Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Bates How, Chest of Drawers, northwestern Connecticut, 1795. Cherry, eastern white pine; H: 38H in.; W: 40 in.; D: 21 in. The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, 1930.2154. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Pencil inscription on the inside of the back…
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
A study of the furniture-makers, social structure, household possessions and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighbouring New England communities. Drawing on documentary and artifactual sources, the author explores the interplay among producer, process and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latt…
The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763–98, Vol. 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798
Modern Craft and the American Experience
Windsor-Chair Making in America
Reviewed by: Windsor-Chair Making in America: From Craft Shop to Consumer Edward S. Cooke Jr. (bio) Windsor-Chair Making in America: From Craft Shop to Consumer. By Nancy Goyne Evans . Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2006. Pp. xv+475. $65. Nancy Evans, who for more than forty years has painstakingly researched the Windsor chair, a plank-seat, turned-leg chair form popular from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, has written…
Face Value
Back in 1994 Cary Carson contributed a 215-page chapter entitled “The Consumer Revolution in Colonial British America: Why Demand?” to a collection of essays published as Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (edited by Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert). Although the volume had a small print run, Carson's contribution quickly became a classic in material culture studies for its bibliographical richnes…
The Material Culture of Furniture Production in the British Colonies
Artifacts have long been markers of wealth, status, self-identity, or taste. As a result, most studies of social distinction in British and American material culture have tended to focus upon the consumption/possession perspective. To explore the production side of material culture distinction, this chapter focuses upon furniture history, examining the structures of furniture making in colonial British society. Comparative exploration of America …
Utensils and Metallurgical Knowledge in South Asia
Eco-Aesthetics as an Organizing Principle in Global Material Culture
Green woodworking has a long history throughout the world. By introducing the notion of “eco-aesthetics,” that is, the material way that makers negotiate a sustainable relationship between humankind and nature in philosophy and built form, this essay proposes a nuanced material culture approach to understanding the ideological constructs of green woodworking. This methodology strives to reorientate the researcher’s gaze from the aesthetic and for…
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