Book ID: CBB000035139

Early American technology: Making and doing things from the Colonial Era to 1850 (1994)

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Description Contents: McGaw, Judith A.: Introduction: The experience of early American technology. Post, Robert C.: Technology in early America: A view from the 1990s. Hindle, Brooke: The exhilaration of early American technology: An essay. Klepp, Susan E.: Lost, hidden, obstructed, and repressed: Contraceptive and abortive technology in the early Delaware Valley. McMahon, Sarah F.: “Publick service” versus “mans properties”: Dock Creek and the origins of urban technology in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. O'Bannon, Patrick W.: Inconsiderable progress: Commercial brewing in Philadelphia before 1840. McMahon, Sarah F.: Laying foods by: Gender, dietary decisions, and the technology of food preservation in New England households, 1750-1850. Jackson, Donald C.: Roads most traveled: Turnpikes in southeastern Pennsylvania. Gordon, Robert B.: Custom and consequence: Early nineteenth-century origins of the environmental and social costs of mining anthracite. Cooper, Carolyn C.: A patent transformation: Woodworking mechanization in Philadelphia, 1830-1856. McGaw, Judith A.: “So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow”: Agricultural tool ownership in the eighteenth-century mid-Atlantic. Lerman, Nina E.: Books on early American technology, 1966-1991. APPENDIX: Hindle, Brooke's pre-1966 bibliography.


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Review Clancey, G. (1995) Review of "Early American technology: Making and doing things from the Colonial Era to 1850". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 499-500). unapi

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