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Most Wonderful Machine : Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 /

On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fa...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: McGaw, Judith A., 1946- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 9780691655390_FChigh; Contents; Part I: Before the Machine; Traditional Paper Making; The Traditions of Work; Part II: The Machine; Part III: After the Machine