American lucifers : the dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865

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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Main Author: Zallen, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Lighting > United States > History > 18th century.
Lighting > United States > History > 19th century.
Lighting > Economic aspects.
Lighting > Political aspects.
Labor > United States > History > 18th century.
Slave labor > History > 18th century.
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