The domestic revolution : how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything /
""The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution-from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has re...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
2020.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | ""The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution-from their own kitchens. 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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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Great Britain under the title The domestic revolution: how the introduction of coal into our homes changed everything"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781631497636 1631497634 |