Everyday Life in Early America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Life in Early America write by David F. Hawke. This book was released on 1989-01-25. Everyday Life in Early America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
Circles and Lines
Circles and Lines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Circles and Lines write by John Demos. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Circles and Lines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian as he unearths--in sometimes unexpected places--fragments of evidence that help us probe the interior lives of people from the faraway past. The earliest settlers lived in a traditional world of natural cycles that shaped their behavior: day and night; seasonal rhythms; the lunar cycle; the life cycle itself. Indeed, so basic were these elements that "almost no one felt a need to comment on them." Yet he finds cyclical patterns--in the seasonal foods they ate, in the spike in marriages following the autumn harvest. Witchcraft cases reveal the different emotional reactions to day versus night, as accidental mishaps in the light become fearful nighttime mysteries. During the transitional world of the American Revolution, people began to see their society in newer terms but seemed unable or unwilling to come to terms with that novelty. Americans became new, Demos points out, before they fully understood what it meant. Their cyclical frame of reference was coming unmoored, giving way to a linear world view in early nineteenth-century America that is neatly captured by Kentucky doctor Daniel Drake's description of the chronography of his life. In his meditation on these three worlds, Demos brilliantly demonstrates how large historical forces are reflected in individual lives. With the imaginative insights and personable touch that we have come to expect from this fine chronicler of the human condition, "Circles and Lines" is vintage John Demos.
A Museum of Early American Tools
A Museum of Early American Tools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Museum of Early American Tools write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2002-01-01. A Museum of Early American Tools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.
Early American Technology
Early American Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early American Technology write by Judith A. McGaw. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Early American Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and technical considerations while laying out a turnpike, the woman of child-bearing age employing herbal contraceptives, and the neighbors of a polluted urban stream debating issues of property, odor, and health. These cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of technological change and the gendered nature of technical knowledge. Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 essay on early American technology is also reprinted, and his view of the field is reassessed. A bibliographical essay and summary of Hindle's bibliographic findings conclude the volume. The contributors are Judith A. McGaw, Robert C. Post, Susan E. Klepp, Michal McMahon, Patrick W. O'Bannon, Sarah F. McMahon, Donald C. Jackson, Robert B. Gordon, Carolyn C. Cooper, and Nina E. Lerman.
Early American Life
Early American Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early American Life write by . This book was released on 1993. Early American Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
