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American lucifers : the dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865 /

"American lucifers tracks how struggles to produce light transformed American history, beginning with the rise of the American whale fishery in the 1750s and culminating in the emergence, around the Civil War, of the petroleum industry and its primary product, kerosene. Between this shift from...

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Main Author: Zallen, Jeremy, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects and Genres:
18th century.
19th century.
1700-1899
Lighting > United States > History > 18th century.
Lighting > United States > History > 19th century.
Lighting > Economic aspects.
Lighting > Political aspects.
Labor > United States > History > 18th century.
Slave labor > History > 18th century.
Labor.
Lighting.
Slave labor.
History.
United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea
  • Piney lights
  • Dungeons and dragons and gaslights
  • Lard lights and the pigpen archipelago
  • Lucifer matches and the global violence of phosphorus
  • Rock oil, civil war, and industrial slavery interrupted.

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