UID:
edocfu_9959237075002883
Format:
1 online resource (495 p.)
ISBN:
979-88-908663-3-2
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0-8078-3998-1
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1-4696-1140-6
Series Statement:
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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Appendix: Brooke Hindle's pre-1966 Bibliography Index; Notes on the Contributors
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-4484-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-2173-X
Language:
English
