Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

by Angela Lakwete

Book Overview

Winner of the 2004 Edelstein Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology

"The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized slaves and battlefield dead. It provokes the suspicion that had Eli Whitney never invented the gin, United States history would have been somehow different. Yet cotton gins existed for centuries before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882729
• ISBN13: 9780801882722
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher