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Home fires : how Americans kept warm in the nineteenth century

"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 tha...

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Main Author: Adams, Sean P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Series:How things worked
Subjects and Genres:
Dwellings > Heating and ventilation > United States > History > 19th century.
Heating > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Social change > United States > History > 19th century.
City and town life > United States > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
United States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
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Call Number: TH 7216 .U5 A33 2014
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