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Consumption Reference library
Linzy Brekke-Aloise
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
...of imported goods grew even faster than the population did. The decline of the power of religious institutions and the increasing importance placed on comfort and civility facilitated a positive embrace of consumerism. Rising literacy rates and the importation of metropolitan courtesy books and magazines introduced people to fashion and the genteel world of European elites. The ideals of polite society began to permeate the rural hinterland and influenced even ordinary artisans to seek out better food, warmer and softer clothing, and new household goods such as...
Education Reference library
Benjamin Justice
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
...beginning students used a primer, either in the form of a small bound book or a hornbook containing the alphabet, basic letter combinations, and the Lord’s Prayer. From there, children would move to prayer books and Bibles, as well as chapbooks and, by the mid-eighteenth century, a variety of schoolbooks, fables, fairy tales, courtesy and advice books, and more. Greater supply of print material increased demand for literacy instruction. New England. The New England colonies developed a strong tradition of community support and regulation. Not only did a...
