Author: Judith A. McGaw
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0807839981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Gabrielle M. Lanier
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1997-07-15
Total Pages: 1278
ISBN-13: 9780801853258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781599217147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The National Park Service's official advice on preserving and restoring historic buildings.
Author: Steven C. Bullock
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0807899852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. He follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction by a massive anti-Masonic movement almost a century later and its subsequent reconfiguration into the brotherhood we know today. With a membership that included Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Paul Revere, and Andrew Jackson, Freemasonry is fascinating in its own right, but Bullock also places the movement at the center of the transformation of American society and culture from the colonial era to the rise of Jacksonian democracy. Using lodge records, members' reminiscences and correspondence, and local and Masonic histories, Bullock links Freemasonry with the changing ideals of early American society. Although the fraternity began among colonial elites, its spread during the Revolution and afterward allowed it to play an important role in shaping the new nation's ideas of liberty and equality. Ironically, however, the more inclusive and universalist Masonic ideas became, the more threatening its members' economic and emotional bonds seemed to outsiders, sparking an explosive attack on the fraternity after 1826. American History
Author: C. Keith Wilbur
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780762774647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the techniques associated with building a house in colonial times.
Author: James L. Garvin
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2002-05
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781584650997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first and only full-scale technical and stylistic analysis of 200 years of architectural evolution in northern New England
Author: Diane Throop
Publisher: ASTM International
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0803134509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 19 papers cover mortars, units, assemblies, and the potential of the industry in the near future. The topics include investigating the rheology and microstructure of hydrated lime and sand for mortars, predicting the freeze-thaw durability of bricks using an index based on residual expansion, a