Format:
1 online resource (x, 482 p.)
ISBN:
9781469611402
Series Statement:
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Notes on the Contributors.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0807844845
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Early American technology Chapel Hill [u.a.] : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 ISBN 080782173X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0807844845
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Technik
;
Geschichte 1700-1850
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4322193
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