From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America

ISBN-13: 9780815606505 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 358 str.

Priscilla J. Brewer

Opis

An examination of the development of the first American appliance - the cast iron stove. The stove created a quiet but culturally contested transform of domestic life and sparked important debates about women, industrialization, the definition of social class and the consumer economy.