Early American Technology Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era To 1850

Name: Early American Technology Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era To 1850
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ISBN: 9780807844847

ISBN-10: 0807844845

ISBN-13: 9780807844847

Edition: 1994

Authors: Judith A. McGaw

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This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and technical considerations while laying out a turnpike, the woman of child-bearing age employing herbal contraceptives, and the neighbors of a polluted urban stream debating issues of property, odor, and health. These cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/18/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 494
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Judith A. McGaw is associate professor of the history of technology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885.



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


Notes on the Contributors