Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

(Part of the How Things Worked Series)

by Sean Patrick Adams

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Home heating networks during the Industrial Revolution helped create the modern dependence on fossil fuel energy in America.

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1421413574

ISBN13:9781421413570

Release Date:May 2014

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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