| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Canada and the United States

Adrienne D. Hood. The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp. 230. $35.00.

In the past five years, scholars have made important new forays in the study of cloth and cloth production in eighteenth-century America. Ranging from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's analysis of the "hidden work" of female spinners and weavers in New England to Marla Miller's discovery of female milliners in the Connecticut River Valley and Linda Baumgarten's analysis of colonial clothing, the field of textile studies has emerged as an exciting arena in which to study the intersection of production and consumption in the colonial economy. Rather than simply rely on a romantic notion of self-sufficiency, seen in the reverence for the term homespun, or skip over domestic production to concentrate on the more visible technological story of mechanized spinning and weaving, these new studies have situated cloth production within specific historical contexts.

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