| Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America Contributor(s): Rees, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1421411067 ISBN-13: 9781421411064 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | History - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 621.564 |
| LCCN: 2013006073 |
| Series: Studies in Industry and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food cold--from cutting river and lake ice and shipping it to consumers for use in their iceboxes to the development of electrically powered equipment that ushered in a new age of convenience and health. As much a history of successful business practices as a history of technology, this book illustrates how refrigeration has changed the everyday lives of Americans and why it remains so important today. Beginning with the natural ice industry in 1806, Rees considers a variety of factors that drove the industry, including the point and product of consumption, issues of transportation, and technological advances. Rees also shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rees, Jonathan: - Jonathan Rees is a professor of history at Colorado State University, Pueblo. He is author of Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942 and Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry during the Nonunion Era. |