Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 439 Seiten)
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Edition:
Princeton Legacy Library edition 2019
ISBN:
9780691194646
Series Statement:
Princeton Legacy Library 5283
Content:
On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution in Berkshrie County, Massachusetts. This book examines their experiences from the era of craft production through several generations of sustained technological change to answer two major questions: What accounts for the widespread and rapid adoption of machines in nineteenth-century America? And how did the new technology help to transform America socially and culturally? Rejecting technological determinism, Judith McGaw effectively integrates labor, business, social, and women's history with technological history to bring to life the human decisions that made mechanization possible. In compelling detail the author offers new explanations of how change in the craft era paved the way for industrialization and how paternalism worked in small-scale industry. She also provides a thoughtful discussion of the interaction between evangelical culture and the emerging industrial order, and a close analysis of how nineteenth-century gender distinctions fostered mechanization.Judith A. McGaw is Assistant Professor of History of Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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Dissertation New York University
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691047405
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691006253
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691655390
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691656816
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe MacGaw, Judith A., 1946 - Most wonderful machine Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton University Press, 1987 ISBN 0691047405
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Berkshire County, Mass.
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Papierherstellung
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Mechanisierung
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Sozialer Wandel
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Geschichte 1801-1885
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Berkshire County, Mass.
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Papierindustrie
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Geschichte 1801-1885
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.23943/9780691194646
