American lucifers : the dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865 /
"American lucifers tracks how struggles to produce light transformed American history, beginning with the rise of the American whale fishery in the 1750s and culminating in the emergence, around the Civil War, of the petroleum industry and its primary product, kerosene. Between this shift from...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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