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Most wonderful machine : mechanization and social change in Berkshire paper making, 1801-1885 /

On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGaw, Judith A., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 9780691655390_FChigh; Contents; Part I: Before the Machine; Traditional Paper Making; The Traditions of Work; Part II: The Machine; Part III: After the Machine