From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America

From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America

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Priscilla J. Brewer examines the development and history of the first American appliancethe cast iron stovethat created a quiet, but culturally contested transformation of domestic life and sparked many important debates about the role of women, industrialization, the definition of social class, and the development of a consumer economy. Brewer explores the shift from fireplaces to stoves for cooking and heating in American homes, and sheds new light on the supposedly separate spheres of home and world of nineteenth century America. She also considers the changing responses to technological development, the emergence of a consumption ethic, and the attempt to define and preserve distinct AngloAmerican middle class culture. There are few works that treat this significant subject, and Brewer covers impressive new ground. Extensively documentedbased on letters, diaries, probate inventories, census records, sales figures, advertisements, fiction, and advice literaturethis book will be valuable to scholars of American history and women s studies.

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