Most Wonderful Machine : : Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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McGaw, Judith A.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©1987
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5283
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: BEFORE THE MACHINE
  • CHAPTER 1. A FINE PLACE FOR PAPER MAKING: BERKSHIRE COUNTY, 1799-1801
  • CHAPTER 2. ZENAS CRANE'S BAGGAGE: THE PAPER-MAKING TRADITION, 1801-1820
  • CHAPTER 3. A DECADE OF PREPARATION: THE 1820s
  • PART II: THE MACHINE
  • CHAPTER 4. MECHANICAL PAPER MAKERS: THE EVOLUTION OF PAPER MACHINERY, 1799-1885
  • CHAPTER 5. THE COMMUNITY OF MECHANIZERS: BERKSHIRE PAPER MILL OWNERS, 1827-1857
  • CHAPTER 6. LOCAL CONDITIONS AND MECHANIZATION: MACHINES IN THE BERKSHIRES, 1827-1885
  • PART III. AFTER THE MACHINE
  • CHAPTER 7. THE MILL TOWNS TRANSFORMED: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AFTER MECHANIZATION, 1857-1885
  • CHAPTER 8. MEN OF SUBSTANCE , ORDER, AND POWER: OWNERS OF MECHANIZED PAPER MILLS , 1858-1885
  • CHAPTER 9. MACHINES AND THE WORKING CLASSES: MALE PAPER MILL EMPLOYEES, 1827-1885
  • CHAPTER 10. "MERE COGS TO THE WHEELS": FEMALE PAPER WORKERS AND THE "SEP ARA TE SPHERE," 1827-1885
  • EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX A. CHRONOLOGY OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY PAPER MILLS AND MILL OWNERSHIP, 1801-1885
  • APPENDIX B. MILL OWNERS, SUCCESS, AND FAILURE: FURTHER DATA
  • APPENDIX C. MILLS, MACHINES, OUTPUT, AND CAP IT AL: LOCAL DATA
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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