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Harvesting History : McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery /

"Harvesting History explores how the highly contentious claim of Cyrus McCormick's 1831 invention of the reaper came to be incorporated into the American historical canon as a fact. Spanning the late 1870s to the 1930s, Daniel P. Ott reveals how the McCormick family and various affiliated...

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Autor principal: Ott, Daniel P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Every Salesman, A Historian
  • Chapter Two: "With Such Benefits to Mankind": Producing Invention for Producer Populists
  • Chapter Three: "The Reaper is to the North...": Historical Laborers and the Manipulation of the Past
  • Chapter Four: "Every Tall Building is a Monument to Bread"
  • Chapter Five: "Historical Accuracy" Kellar, 1915-1932
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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