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] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (495 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/3/0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Technology - United States - History - 18th century
Technology - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8078-3998-1
1-4696-1140-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460518503321 |
Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [1994] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (495 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/3/0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Technology - United States - History - 18th century
Technology - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
979-88-908663-3-2
0-8078-3998-1 1-4696-1140-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797360703321 |
Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [1994] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (495 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/3/0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Technology - United States - History - 18th century
Technology - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
979-88-908663-3-2
0-8078-3998-1 1-4696-1140-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826487503321 |
Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [1994] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Military enterprise and technological change : perspectives on the American experience / / edited by Merritt Roe Smith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1985 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 355.8/2/0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SmithMerritt Roe <1940-> |
Soggetto topico |
Defense industries - United States - History - 19th century
Defense industries - United States - History - 20th century Technology - United States - History - 19th century Technology - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 0-585-33600-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996247922603316 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1985 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Science and technology in the age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James [[electronic resource] ] : thinking and writing electricity / / Sam Halliday |
Autore | Halliday Sam |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.73/09034 |
Collana | American literature readings in the 21st century |
Soggetto topico |
Science - United States - History - 19th century
Technology - United States - History - 19th century Electricity - History - 19th century Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-36321-9
9786611363215 0-230-60509-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Time and Space; 2 Individual Difference and Self-Representation; 3 Sympathy and Reciprocity; 4 Connection and Division; 5 Inclusion and Exclusion; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450919503321 |
Halliday Sam | ||
New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Technical knowledge in American culture [[electronic resource] ] : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s / / edited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I Marcus, and David M. Katzman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina |
306.4/6/097309034
306.460973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CravensHamilton
KatzmanDavid M MarcusAlan I <1949-> |
Collana | History of American science and technology series |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - United States - History - 19th century
Medicine - United States - History - 20th century Medicine - United States - History Science - United States - History - 19th century Science - United States - History - 20th century Science - United States - History Technology - United States - History - 19th century Technology - United States - History - 20th century Technology - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8272-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Technical Knowledge in American Culture: An Analysis; PART ONE: THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC CULTURE, 1800-1870; I. The Ohio Mechanic's Institute: The Challenge of Incivility in the Democratic Republic; 2. The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853; 3. From Individual Practitioner to Regular Physician: Cincinnati Medical Societies and the Problem of Definition among Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americans; PART TWO: THE AGE OF HIERARCHY, 1870-1920
4. Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood: Nineteenth-Century Physicians and ""Puerperal Insanity""5· The Inventor of the Mustache Cup: James Emerson and Populist Technology, 1870-1900; 6. Race-ism and the City: The Young Du Bois and the Role of Place in Social Theory, 1893-1901; 7· The German-American Science of Racial Nutrition, 1870-1920; PART THREE: TOWARD AN INFINITY OF DIMENSIONS; 8. The Case of the Manufactured Morons: Science and Social Policy in Two Eras, 1934-1966; 9· Responding to the Airplane: Urban Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism, and Airport Development in Dallas, 1927-1965 10. Unanticipated Aftertaste: Cancer, the Role of Science, and the Question of DES Beef in Late Twentieth-Century American Culture Afterword; Notes; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454720203321 |
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Technical knowledge in American culture [[electronic resource] ] : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s / / edited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I Marcus, and David M. Katzman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina |
306.4/6/097309034
306.460973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CravensHamilton
KatzmanDavid M MarcusAlan I <1949-> |
Collana | History of American science and technology series |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - United States - History - 19th century
Medicine - United States - History - 20th century Medicine - United States - History Science - United States - History - 19th century Science - United States - History - 20th century Science - United States - History Technology - United States - History - 19th century Technology - United States - History - 20th century Technology - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-8173-8272-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Technical Knowledge in American Culture: An Analysis; PART ONE: THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC CULTURE, 1800-1870; I. The Ohio Mechanic's Institute: The Challenge of Incivility in the Democratic Republic; 2. The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853; 3. From Individual Practitioner to Regular Physician: Cincinnati Medical Societies and the Problem of Definition among Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americans; PART TWO: THE AGE OF HIERARCHY, 1870-1920
4. Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood: Nineteenth-Century Physicians and ""Puerperal Insanity""5· The Inventor of the Mustache Cup: James Emerson and Populist Technology, 1870-1900; 6. Race-ism and the City: The Young Du Bois and the Role of Place in Social Theory, 1893-1901; 7· The German-American Science of Racial Nutrition, 1870-1920; PART THREE: TOWARD AN INFINITY OF DIMENSIONS; 8. The Case of the Manufactured Morons: Science and Social Policy in Two Eras, 1934-1966; 9· Responding to the Airplane: Urban Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism, and Airport Development in Dallas, 1927-1965 10. Unanticipated Aftertaste: Cancer, the Role of Science, and the Question of DES Beef in Late Twentieth-Century American Culture Afterword; Notes; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778044703321 |
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Technical knowledge in American culture [[electronic resource] ] : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s / / edited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I Marcus, and David M. Katzman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina |
306.4/6/097309034
306.460973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CravensHamilton
KatzmanDavid M MarcusAlan I <1949-> |
Collana | History of American science and technology series |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - United States - History - 19th century
Medicine - United States - History - 20th century Medicine - United States - History Science - United States - History - 19th century Science - United States - History - 20th century Science - United States - History Technology - United States - History - 19th century Technology - United States - History - 20th century Technology - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-8173-8272-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Technical Knowledge in American Culture: An Analysis; PART ONE: THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC CULTURE, 1800-1870; I. The Ohio Mechanic's Institute: The Challenge of Incivility in the Democratic Republic; 2. The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853; 3. From Individual Practitioner to Regular Physician: Cincinnati Medical Societies and the Problem of Definition among Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americans; PART TWO: THE AGE OF HIERARCHY, 1870-1920
4. Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood: Nineteenth-Century Physicians and ""Puerperal Insanity""5· The Inventor of the Mustache Cup: James Emerson and Populist Technology, 1870-1900; 6. Race-ism and the City: The Young Du Bois and the Role of Place in Social Theory, 1893-1901; 7· The German-American Science of Racial Nutrition, 1870-1920; PART THREE: TOWARD AN INFINITY OF DIMENSIONS; 8. The Case of the Manufactured Morons: Science and Social Policy in Two Eras, 1934-1966; 9· Responding to the Airplane: Urban Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism, and Airport Development in Dallas, 1927-1965 10. Unanticipated Aftertaste: Cancer, the Role of Science, and the Question of DES Beef in Late Twentieth-Century American Culture Afterword; Notes; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822318503321 |
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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