Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America by Jennifer L. Anderson

Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America

Jennifer L. Anderson

398 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly displaced local furniture woods as the height of fas...

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