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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 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. These 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. The contributors are Judith A. McGaw, Robert C. Post, Susan E. Klepp, Michal McMahon, Patrick W. O'Bannon, Sarah F. McMahon, Donald C. Jackson, Robert B. Gordon, Carolyn C. Cooper, and Nina E. Lerman.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Judith A. McGaw |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Release |
: 2014-01-01 |
File |
: 495 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807839980 |
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This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Genre |
: Technology & Engineering |
Author |
: Brooke Hindle |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Release |
: 2012-12-01 |
File |
: 166 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807838648 |
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In recent years, scholars in a number of disciplines have focused their attention on understanding the early American economy. The result has been an outpouring of scholarship, some of it dramatically revising older methodologies and findings, and some of it charting entirely new territory&—new subjects, new places, and new arenas of study that might not have been considered &“economic&” in the past. The Economy of Early America enters this resurgent discussion of the early American economy by showcasing the work of leading scholars who represent a spectrum of historiographical and methodological viewpoints. Contributors include David Hancock, Russell Menard, Lorena Walsh, Christopher Tomlins, David Waldstreicher, Terry Bouton, Brooke Hunter, Daniel Dupre, John Majewski, Donna Rilling, and Seth Rockman, as well as Cathy Matson.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Cathy D. Matson |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
File |
: 392 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271027654 |
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Genre |
: Science |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1981 |
File |
: 128 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: PSU:000066294689 |
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Tells the surprising story of how road construction helped to pave the way to the modern American state. Shows how the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing population changed political order from local to state and ultimately to federal governance.
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Genre |
: Business & Economics |
Author |
: Michael R. Fein |
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: |
Release |
: 2008 |
File |
: 336 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NWU:35556030747141 |
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Kenneth L. Ames |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1985 |
File |
: 250 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IND:30000011769142 |
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Genre |
: Etats-Unis |
Author |
: Terry S. Reynolds |
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: |
Release |
: 1987 |
File |
: 256 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015019219693 |
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: Indiana |
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: |
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: |
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: 1967 |
File |
: 764 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:B3614958 |
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In the transatlantic world of the late eighteenth century, easterly winds blew radical thought to America. Thomas Paine had already arrived on these shores in 1774 and made his mark as a radical pamphleteer during the Revolution. In his wake followed more than 200 other radical exiles—English Dissenters, Whigs, and Painites; Scottish "lads o'parts"; and Irish patriots—who became influential newspaper writers and editors and helped change the nature of political discourse in a young nation. Michael Durey has written the first full-scale analysis of these radicals, evaluating the long-term influence their ideas have had on American political thought. Transatlantic Radicals uncovers the roots of their radicalism in the Old World and tells the story of how these men came to be exiled, how they emigrated, and how they participated in the politics of their adopted country. Nearly all of these radicals looked to Paine as their spiritual leader and to Thomas Jefferson as their political champion. They held egalitarian, anti-federalist values and promoted an extreme form of participatory democracy that found a niche in the radical wing of Jefferson's Republican Party. Their divided views on slavery, however, reveal that democratic republicanism was unable to cope with the realities of that institution. As political activists during the 1790s, they proved crucial to Jefferson's 1800 presidential victory; then, after his views moderated and their influence waned, many repatriated, others drifted into anonymity, and a few managed to find success in the New World. Although many of these men are known to us through other histories, their influence as a group has never before been so closely examined. Durey persuasively demonstrates that the intellectual ferment in Britain did indeed have tremendous influence on American politics. His account of that influence sheds considerable light on transatlantic political history and differences in religious, political, and economic freedoms. Skillfully balancing a large cast of characters, Transatlantic Radicals depicts the diversity of their experiences and shows how crucial these reluctant émigrés were to shaping our republic in its formative years.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Michael Durey |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1997 |
File |
: 448 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015036094657 |
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Genre |
: Bibliography |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1974 |
File |
: 408 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015053274703 |