Early American technology making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 /
| Other Authors: | McGaw, Judith A., 1946- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[1994]
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| Physical Description: |
x, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-460) and index. Introduction: the experience of early American technology -- Technology in early America: a view from the 1990s -- 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 travelled: 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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| Physical Description: |
x, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-460) and index. |
| ISBN: |
080782173X 0807844845 |