This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650–1850)

Jean Thomas and his wife, Joy, have lived in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, since 1982. Jean was born in central Haiti?the son of a Baptist pastor. Joy grew up in Oreg

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of