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

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ott, Daniel P. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, > 1809-1884.
Inventors.
Harvesting machinery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Inventors > United States > Biography.
Harvesting machinery > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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