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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797360703321

Titolo

Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / / edited by Judith A. McGaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [1994]

©1994

ISBN

979-88-908663-3-2

0-8078-3998-1

1-4696-1140-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (495 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

303.48/3/0973

Soggetti

Technology - United States - History - 18th century

Technology - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-460) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Experience of Early American Technology; Technology in Early America: A View from the 1990's; 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



Appendix: Brooke Hindle's pre-1966 Bibliography Index;  Notes on the Contributors