Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / edited by Judith A. McGaw.
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...
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Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
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Table of 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.