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050 00 $aT21$b.E24 1994
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245 00 $aEarly American technology :$bmaking and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 /$cedited by Judith A. McGaw.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bPublished for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9412
300 $ax, 482 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 407-460) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The Experience of Early American Technology / Judith A. McGaw -- Technology in Early America: A View from the 1990s / Robert C. Post -- The Exhilaration of Early American Technology: An Essay / Brooke Hindle -- Lost, Hidden, Obstructed, and Repressed: Contraceptive and Abortive Technology in the Early Delaware Valley / Susan E. Klepp -- "Publick Service" versus "Mans Properties": Dock Creek and the Origins of Urban Technology in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia / Michal McMahon -- Inconsiderable Progress: Commercial Brewing in Philadelphia before 1840 / Patrick W. O'Bannon -- Laying Foods By: Gender, Dietary Decisions, and the Technology of Food Preservation in New England Households, 1750-1850 / Sarah F. McMahon -- Roads Most Traveled: Turnpikes in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the Early Republic / Donald C. Jackson -- Custom and Consequence: Early Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Environmental and Social Costs of Mining Anthracite / Robert B. Gordon.
505 8 $aA Patent Transformation: Woodworking Mechanization in Philadelphia, 1830-1856 / Carolyn C. Cooper -- "So Much Depends upon a Red Wheelbarrow": Agricultural Tool Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic / Judith A. McGaw -- Books on Early American Technology, 1966-1991 / Nina E. Lerman -- Appendix: Brooke Hindle's pre-1966 Bibliography.
520 $aThis collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America.
520 8 $aUnlike 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.
520 8 $aThese cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of technological change and the gendered nature of technical knowledge. Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 essay on early American technology is also reprinted, and his view of the field is reassessed. A bibliographical essay and summary of Hindle's bibliographic findings conclude the volume.
650 0 $aTechnology$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aTechnology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009102967
700 1 $aMcGaw, Judith A.,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85241725
852 00 $bglx$hT21$i.E24 1994