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Most wonderful machine: mechanization and social change in Berkshire paper making, 1801-1885

Judith A. McGaw c1987 © Princeton University Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691006253 (paper)
  • 9780691194646 (ebook)
  • 9780691047409 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • List of Tables (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Abbreviations (page xvii)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • PART I: BEFORE THE MACHINE
    • CHAPTER 1. A Fine Place for Paper Making: Berkshire County, 1799-1801 (page 15)
    • CHAPTER 2. Zenas Crane's Baggage: The Paper-Making Tradition, 1801-1820 (page 38)
    • CHAPTER 3. A Decade of Preparation: The 1820s (page 59)
  • PART II: THE MACHINE
    • CHAPTER 4. Mechanical Paper Makers: The Evolution of Paper Machinery, 1799-1885 (page 93)
    • CHAPTER 5. The Community of Mechanizers: Berkshire Paper Mill Owners, 1827-1857 (page 117)
    • CHAPTER 6. Local Conditions and Mechanization: Machines in the Berkshires, 1827-1885 (page 158)
  • PART III: AFTER THE MACHINE
    • CHAPTER 7. The Mill Towns Transformed: Technological Change After Mechanization, 1857-1885 (page 189)
    • CHAPTER 8. Men of Substance, Order, and Power: Owners of Mechanized Paper Mills, 1858-1885 (page 234)
    • CHAPTER 9. Machines and the Working Classes: Male Paper Mill Employees, 1827-1885 (page 280)
    • CHAPTER 10. "Mere Cogs to the Wheels": Female Paper Workers and the "Separate Sphere," 1827-1885 (page 335)
  • Epilogue and Conclusion (page 375)
  • Appendix A: Chronology of Berkshire County Paper Mills and Mill Ownership, 1801-1885 (page 383)
  • Appendix B: Mill Owners, Success, and Failure: Further Data (page 401)
  • Appendix C: Mills, Machines, Output, and Capital: Local Data (page 407)
  • Bibliography (page 413)
  • Index (page 427)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 94.4 (Oct. 1989): 1171-172 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198910%2994%3A4%3C1171%3AMWMMAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
JAH 75.2 (Sep. 1988): 604-605 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198910%2994%3A4%3C1171%3AMWMMAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
RAH 16.1 (Mar. 1988): 15-18 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28198803%2916%3A1%3C15%3ABC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
JEH 47.4 (Dec. 1987): 1044-1046 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198712%2947%3A4%3C1044%3AMWMMAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
ISIS 79.2 (Jun. 1988): 299-301 http://www.jstor.org/stable/233630
BHR 62.2 (Summer 1988): 324-325 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3116008
JER 7.4 (Winter 1987): 417-418 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3123736
AAAPSS 505 (Sep. 1989): 192-193 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1047313
SSS 21.1 (Feb. 1991): 191 http://www.jstor.org/stable/285335
JSocH 22.2 (Winter 1988): 368-369 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3788231
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