Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 /

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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Other Authors: McGaw, Judith A., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1994
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central