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Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850
- Title
- Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / edited by Judith A. McGaw.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1994.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-USLHG T21 E24 1994 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McGaw, Judith A., 1946-
- Description
- x, 482 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-460) and index.
- 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 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.
- Call Number
- T21
- ISBN
- 080782173X (alk. paper)
- 0807844845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94004913
- OCLC
- 29952381
- Title
- Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / edited by Judith A. McGaw.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1994.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-460) and index.
- Added Author
- McGaw, Judith A., 1946-
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG T21 E24 1994