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Harvesting history : McCormick's reaper, heritage branding, and historical forgery / Daniel P. Ott.

"Harvesting History explores how the highly contentious claim of Cyrus McCormick's 1831 invention of the reaper came to be incorporated into the American historical canon as a fact. Spanning the late 1870s to the 1930s, Daniel P. Ott reveals how the McCormick family and various affiliated...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ott, Daniel P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piraí : University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, > 1809-1884.
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, > 1809-1884
Inventors > United States > Biography.
Harvesting machinery > United States > History.
Inventors
Harvesting machinery
United States
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Every Salesman, A Historian
  • Chapter Two: "With Such Benefits to Mankind": Producing Invention for Producer Populists
  • Chapter Three: "The Reaper is to the North...": Historical Laborers and the Manipulation of the Past
  • Chapter Four: "Every Tall Building is a Monument to Bread"
  • Chapter Five: "Historical Accuracy" Kellar, 1915-1932
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • .

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