{"product_id":"from-fireplace-to-cookstove-priscilla-brewer-9780815606505","title":"From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America","description":"\u003cp\u003ePriscilla 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrewer explores the shift from fireplaces to stoves for cooking and heating in American homes, and sheds new light on the supposedly \"separate spheres\" of home and world of nineteenth- century America. She also considers the changing responses to technological development, the emergence of a consumption ethic, and the attempt to define and preserve distinct Anglo-American middle class culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are few works that treat this significant subject, and Brewer covers impressive new ground. Extensively documented--based on letters, diaries, probate inventories, census records, sales figures, advertisements, fiction, and advice literature-this book will be valuable to scholars of American history and women's studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Priscilla Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815606508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815606505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.59h x 6.50w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2001 pg. 1291","brand":"Priscilla Brewer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947323588863,"sku":"9780815606505","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d0c00701-230b-46df-b551-2943d131558e.jpg?v=1681518041","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-fireplace-to-cookstove-priscilla-brewer-9780815606505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}