Most Wonderful Machine : : Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 / / Judith A. McGaw.
On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fa...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1987 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
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