American lucifers : the dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865 /

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"American lucifers tracks how struggles to produce light transformed American history, beginning with the rise of the American whale fishery in the 1750s and culminating in the emergence, around the Civil War, of the petroleum industry and its primary product, kerosene. Between this shift from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zallen, Jeremy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Temas:
1700-1899
Lighting > United States > History > 18th century.
Lighting > United States > History > 19th century.
Lighting > Economic aspects.
Lighting > Political aspects.
Labor > United States > History > 18th century.
Slave labor > History > 18th century.
Éclairage > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Éclairage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Éclairage > Aspect économique.
Éclairage > Aspect politique.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Travail > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Labor.
Lighting.
Slave labor.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea
  • Piney lights
  • Dungeons and dragons and gaslights
  • Lard lights and the pigpen archipelago
  • Lucifer matches and the global violence of phosphorus
  • Rock oil, civil war, and industrial slavery interrupted.

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