Refrigeration Nation - 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 Refrigeration Nation write by Jonathan Rees. This book was released on 2013-12-15. Refrigeration Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How we keep food cold while the house stays warm. Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food cold—from cutting river and lake ice and shipping it to consumers for use in their iceboxes to the development of electrically powered equipment that ushered in a new age of convenience and health. As much a history of successful business practices as a history of technology, this book illustrates how refrigeration has changed the everyday lives of Americans and why it remains so important today. Beginning with the natural ice industry in 1806, Rees considers a variety of factors that drove the industry, including the point and product of consumption, issues of transportation, and technological advances. Rees also shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural world.
Refrigeration Nation
Refrigeration Nation - 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 Refrigeration Nation write by Jonathan Rees. This book was released on 2013-12-15. Refrigeration Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food cold—from cutting river and lake ice and shipping it to consumers for use in their iceboxes to the development of electrically powered equipment that ushered in a new age of convenience and health. As much a history of successful business practices as a history of technology, this book illustrates how refrigeration has changed the everyday lives of Americans and why it remains so important today. Beginning with the natural ice industry in 1806, Rees considers a variety of factors that drove the industry, including the point and product of consumption, issues of transportation, and technological advances. Rees also shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural world. "A smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food."—American Historical Review "Rees has written an entertaining, well-narrated, and well-researched book about building one root infrastructure of modern food systems."—Business History "Refrigeration Nation is a well-written and useful book for both scholars and students . . . Rees presents a well-developed account of the importance of American enterprise and innovation in the national and global marketplace."—History: Reviews of New Books "A fascinating book."—Heritage Radio Jonathan Rees is a professor of history at Colorado State University–Pueblo. He is the author of Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction and Refrigerator.
Refrigerator
Refrigerator - 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 Refrigerator write by Jonathan Rees. This book was released on 2015-09-24. Refrigerator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other technology of the last two thousand years-but have you ever thought seriously about your refrigerator? That box humming in the background displays more than you might expect, even who you are and the society in which you live. Jonathan Rees examines the past, present, and future of the household refrigerator with the aim of preventing its users from ever taking it for granted again. No mere container for cold Cokes and celery stalks, the refrigerator acts as a mirror-and what it reflects is chilling indeed. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Before the Refrigerator
Before the Refrigerator - 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 Before the Refrigerator write by Jonathan Rees. This book was released on 2018-03. Before the Refrigerator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to harvest ice -- How to manufacture ice -- How ice (and the perishable food it preserved) make it to consumers -- How ice changed the American diet and American life -- How household refrigerators changed the ice market forever
Nation's Health
Nation's Health - 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 Nation's Health write by John Augustus Lapp. This book was released on 1922. Nation's Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
