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

McGaw, Judith A. (Editor)

University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture

Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: x + 482 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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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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