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Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
Judith A. McGaw-
Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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List of Tables (page xi)
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Acknowledgments (page xiii)
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Abbreviations (page xvii)
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Introduction (page 3)
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PART I: BEFORE THE MACHINE
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CHAPTER 1. A Fine Place for Paper Making: Berkshire County, 1799-1801 (page 15)
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CHAPTER 2. Zenas Crane's Baggage: The Paper-Making Tradition, 1801-1820 (page 38)
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CHAPTER 3. A Decade of Preparation: The 1820s (page 59)
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PART II: THE MACHINE
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CHAPTER 4. Mechanical Paper Makers: The Evolution of Paper Machinery, 1799-1885 (page 93)
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CHAPTER 5. The Community of Mechanizers: Berkshire Paper Mill Owners, 1827-1857 (page 117)
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CHAPTER 6. Local Conditions and Mechanization: Machines in the Berkshires, 1827-1885 (page 158)
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PART III: AFTER THE MACHINE
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CHAPTER 7. The Mill Towns Transformed: Technological Change After Mechanization, 1857-1885 (page 189)
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CHAPTER 8. Men of Substance, Order, and Power: Owners of Mechanized Paper Mills, 1858-1885 (page 234)
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CHAPTER 9. Machines and the Working Classes: Male Paper Mill Employees, 1827-1885 (page 280)
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CHAPTER 10. "Mere Cogs to the Wheels": Female Paper Workers and the "Separate Sphere," 1827-1885 (page 335)
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Epilogue and Conclusion (page 375)
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Appendix A: Chronology of Berkshire County Paper Mills and Mill Ownership, 1801-1885 (page 383)
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Appendix B: Mill Owners, Success, and Failure: Further Data (page 401)
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Appendix C: Mills, Machines, Output, and Capital: Local Data (page 407)
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Bibliography (page 413)
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Index (page 427)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: c1987
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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