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UNINA9910826487503321 |
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Titolo |
Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / / edited by Judith A. McGaw |
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Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [1994] |
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©1994 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908663-3-2 |
0-8078-3998-1 |
1-4696-1140-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (495 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Technology - United States - History - 18th century |
Technology - United States - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-460) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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