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
Autor principal: Zallen, Jeremy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slave labor.
Lighting.
Labor.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Esclaves > Travail > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Éclairage > Aspect politique.
Éclairage > Aspect economique.
Éclairage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Éclairage > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Slave labor > History > 18th century.
Labor > United States > History > 18th century.
Lighting > Political aspects.
Lighting > Economic aspects.
Lighting > United States > History > 19th century.
Lighting > United States > History > 18th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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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