Search Results: Titles starting with W from Mulberry Hill Books

The respected and widely read social critic, Carey Mcwilliams, shows how the causal logic and repressive technique of inquisators in the U.S. duriing the 40s and 50s are the same as those practiced by the Inquisition by the Salem theocracy and by all other societies which sought to clothe their weaknesses, contraditons, and tensions by the creation of heresy and the persecution of witches. Ex-lib with all that that implies. There's a bit of underlining here and there.

"Enjoyably fresh and informative."—Gayle Stege, Curator, Ohio State University, Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection.
"A most informative essay about the production of woolen clothing in late 18th-century America." —Karen Parsons, Coordinator, Depreciation Lands Museum."
On display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. is the only uniform worn by George Washington known to survive. As a rare artifact it is priceless; but it also has value for what it can tell us about everyday life during a significant period in American history.
The sewing machine hadn't been invented, so all clothing was sewn by hand, one stich at a time. The fabric, too, was made by hand—in fact, by many hands. Using Washington's uniform as a model, Donald Tunnicliff Rice takes us through the many steps necessary to make an eighteenth-century garment. Along the way we learn a great deal about the colonies'—and the new nation's—social structure, economy, industry, foreign relations,… Read More