American furniture : 1650 to the present / Oscar P. Fitzgerald.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-603) and index.

The Jacobean period : joiners and cabinetmakers in the new world -- William and Mary : the years of transition -- Queen Anne : the line of beauty -- The Chippendale style -- Furniture of the federal period -- American empire -- Windsor chairs -- Country furniture : New England -- Southern furniture -- Furniture of rural Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Midwest -- Furniture of the Shakers : the gift to be simple -- Victorian furniture : the gothic and rococo revivals -- Victorian furniture : the Renaissance revival -- Eastlake, the aesthetic movement, and the colonial revival -- American mission furniture and the arts and crafts movement : 1900-1915 -- Traditional revivals for a conservative public -- Modern furniture, 1920-1941 : is it here to stay? -- America takes the lead : mid-century modern, 1950s and 1960s -- Post-modern and avant-garde furniture since 1975 -- Studio furniture and furniture as art -- Connoisseurship of American furniture.