Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

by Sean Patrick Adams

Book Overview

Home heating networks during the Industrial Revolution helped create the modern dependence on fossil fuel energy in America.

Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413574
• ISBN13: 9781421413570
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"