[PDF.72co] Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (How Things Worked)

Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (How Things Worked)

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 | #1960804 in Books |  2014-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.60 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Would recommend.|By Candide|A surprisingly interesting book on the energy industry of the 19th century. As I read it, the world of the 19th century opened up through the window of the universal need to heat one's home and cook. As a person who tracks the oil industry today, certain parallels, such as unpredictable price fluctuation became immediately obvious. Little details, su| ||"This smartly written and well-informed book focuses on a subject that very few people think about - the history of home heating in America... The writing flows well, making it an enjoyable read. The scholarship is sound." (Choice)

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Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs in home heating markets used to convince consumers that their product designs and fuel choices were superior, and how elite, middle-class, and poor Americans respon...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (How Things Worked)   |  Sean Patrick Adams. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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