Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / / edited by Judith A. McGaw
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Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / / edited by Judith A. McGaw
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [1994] |
| ©1994 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (495 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/3/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Technology - United States - History - 18th century |
| Technology - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | McGawJudith A. <1946-> |
| 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Early American technology |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-3998-1 |
| 1-4696-1140-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460518503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia