Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850Judith 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 acquir |
Contents
Technology in Early America A View from the 1990s | 16 |
An Essay | 40 |
Contraceptive and Abortive Technology in the Early Delaware Valley | 68 |
Dock Creek and the Origins of Urban Technology in EighteenthCentury Philadelphia | 114 |
Commercial Brewing in Philadelphia before 1840 | 148 |
Gender Dietary Decisions and the Technology of Food Preservation in New England Households 17501850 | 164 |
Turnpikes in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the Early Republic | 197 |
Early NineteenthCentury Origins of the Environmental and Social Costs of Mining Anthracite | 240 |
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