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

by Priscilla J. Brewer

Book Overview

Priscilla J. Brewer examines the development and history of the first American appliance--the cast iron stove--that 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815606508
• ISBN13: 9780815606505
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"