Home Fires : How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century /

"Using the challenge of staying warm in the industrializing North as a window into the complex world of energy transitions, economic change, and emerging consumerism, Sean Patrick Adams presents the development of new home heating methods in order to trace connections between structural transfo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Adams, Sean P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Industrialisierung
Kohleheizung
Social conditions.
Social change.
Manners and customs.
Industrialization > Social aspects.
Economic history.
Dwellings > Heating and ventilation.
City and town life.
HISTORY > Social History.
SCIENCE > History.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Industrialisation > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Vie urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Habitations > Chauffage et ventilation > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Industrialization > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
City and town life > United States > History > 19th century.
Social change > United States > History > 19th century.
Heating > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Dwellings > Heating and ventilation > United States > History > 19th century.
USA
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions economiques > 19e siecle.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
United States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: The Urban Hearth
  • How the Industrial Economy Made the Stove
  • How Mineral Heat Came to American Cities
  • How the Coal Trade Made Heat Cheap
  • How the Industrial Hearth Defied Control
  • How Steam Heat Found its Limits
  • Epilogue: The Industrial Hearth
  • Appendix: Abbreviations of Archives Consulted.

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