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

Author/Contributor(s):	Brewer, Priscilla
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Date:	09/01/2000
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

An examination of the development of the first American appliance - the cast iron stove. The stove created a quiet but culturally contested transform of domestic life and sparked important debates about women, industrialization, the definition of social class and the consumer economy.