Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850 - Google Books

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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 acquir