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The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal Into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
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ISBN10: 1631497634
ISBN13: 9781631497636
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: Oct 20 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781631497636
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: Oct 20 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century--from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity.
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