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Home Fires - How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Home Fires - How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: How Things Worked
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Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home
heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks
that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams
reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in
American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs in home heating
markets used to convince consumers that their product designs and
fuel choices were superior, and how elite, middle-class, and poor
Americans responded to these overtures. Adams depicts the problem
of dwindling supplies of firewood and the search for alternatives;
the hazards of cutting, digging, and drilling in the name of home
heating; the trouble and expense of moving materials from place to
place; the rise of steam power; the growth of an industrial
economy; and questions of economic efficiency, at both the
individual household and the regional level. Home Fires makes it
clear that debates over energy sources, energy policy, and company
profit margins have been around a long time. The challenge of
staying warm in the industrializing North becomes a window into the
complex world of energy transitions, economic change, and emerging
consumerism. Readers will understand the struggles of urban
families as they sought to adapt to the ever-changing
nineteenth-century industrial landscape. This perspective allows a
unique view of the development of an industrial society not just
from the ground up but from the hearth up.
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