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 |
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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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Table of Contents:
- 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.