Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies

by Michael Olmert and OLMERT M

In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello. These structures were designed to support the performance of a single task:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447917
• ISBN13: 9780801447914
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher