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From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America
Priscilla J. Brewer
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.
320 pages, 93 photographs, bibliography, notes, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 1, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780815606505 |
| Publishers | Syracuse University Press |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 29 mm · 748 g |
