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Early American Technology : Making and Doing Things From the Colonial Era to 1850 /
This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the experience of early American technology
- Technology in early America: a view from the 1990s
- The exhilaration of early American technology: an essay
- Lost, hidden, obstructed and repressed: contraceptive and abortive technology in the early Delaware Valley
- "Publick service" versus "Mans Properties": Dock Creek and the origins of urban technology in eighteenth-century Philadelphia
- Inconsiderable progress: commercial brewing in Philadelphia before 1840
- Laying foods by: gender, dietary decisions, and the technology of food preservation in New England households, 1750-1850
- Roads most traveled: turnpikes in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the early republic
- Custom and consequence: early nineteenth-century origins of the environmental and social costs of mining anthracite
- A patent transformation: woodworking mechanization in Philadelphia, 1830-1856
- "So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow": agricultural tool ownership in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic
- Books on early American technology, 1966-1991.