Judith A Mcgaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 830461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith A Mcgaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgaw |
| SIGNATURE | MCGAW J A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
Memorial: Brooke Hindle, 1918-2001
Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries
Judith A. McGaw, Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 214-231
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1860
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Journal Article Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1830. Ed. by Judith A. McGaw. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 482 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5.) Get access Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making 1801-1885
To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. Jeremy Atack , Fred Bateman
The Agricultural-Industrial Transition in New England
Building Capitalism
Steam Power: A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930
Food for Thought in Philadelphia: The Larder Invaded
Exhibit Reviews FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN PHILADELPHIA: “THE LARDER INVADED” JUDITH A. MCGAW The history of food is inherently difficult to exhibit. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, culinary historians have had their “best evidence . . . eaten by its creators”;1 the surviving record lacks the gustatory and olfactory data that tell us most about food. More over, “a full scholarly context is only now emerging ... [in this] rel atively new …
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman, and: Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott by Lela B. Costin (review)
648 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE and technology, if their alternative is to go to school to preachers like Warner. There is very little I can say for this book. It is poorly written (the author develops a fascination with the word “imperial,” for example, using it some eight times between page 179, where I began counting, and 213 where I gave up), and his inchoateness shows through. If you are a Boston fan—and an inexplicably large number …
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters
Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. Neil Longley York
Accounting for Innovation: Technological Change and Business Practice in the Berkshire County Paper Industry
Thomas Cochran has argued persuasively that historians of technology who seek cultural explanations for America's rapid early industrialization will find the examination of 19th-century business practices most rewarding. As befits a broad, synthetic essay, his Frontiers of Change mentions many of these practices, including accounting methods, only briefly.' My study of accounting procedures in a rapidly mechanizing 19th-century industry supports …
More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Women and the History of American Technology
"A Good Place to Work." Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women
Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women In I848 Mrs. Amy Fuller of Sheffield, Massachusetts, wrote to the owners of a paper mill in Dalton, a town about thirty miles distant, We have been informed that you are in want of help in your mill and I have heard it was a good place to work. This simple event poses a complex question for students of nineteenth-century American work and workers. Given the somber hues in whi…
Accounting for Innovation: Technological Change and Business Practice in the Berkshire County Paper Industry
Thomas Cochran has argued persuasively that historians of technology who seek cultural explanations for America's rapid early industrialization will find the examination of 19th-century business practices most rewarding. As befits a broad, synthetic essay, his Frontiers of Change mentions many of these practices, including accounting methods, only briefly.' My study of accounting procedures in a rapidly mechanizing 19th-century industry supports …
Women and the History of American Technology
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Journal Article Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1830. Ed. by Judith A. McGaw. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 482 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5.) Get access Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries
Judith A. McGaw, Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 214-231
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
"A Good Place to Work." Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women
Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women In I848 Mrs. Amy Fuller of Sheffield, Massachusetts, wrote to the owners of a paper mill in Dalton, a town about thirty miles distant, We have been informed that you are in want of help in your mill and I have heard it was a good place to work. This simple event poses a complex question for students of nineteenth-century American work and workers. Given the somber hues in whi…
"A Good Place to Work." Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women
Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women In I848 Mrs. Amy Fuller of Sheffield, Massachusetts, wrote to the owners of a paper mill in Dalton, a town about thirty miles distant, We have been informed that you are in want of help in your mill and I have heard it was a good place to work. This simple event poses a complex question for students of nineteenth-century American work and workers. Given the somber hues in whi…
Women and the History of American Technology
More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Accounting for Innovation: Technological Change and Business Practice in the Berkshire County Paper Industry
Thomas Cochran has argued persuasively that historians of technology who seek cultural explanations for America's rapid early industrialization will find the examination of 19th-century business practices most rewarding. As befits a broad, synthetic essay, his Frontiers of Change mentions many of these practices, including accounting methods, only briefly.' My study of accounting procedures in a rapidly mechanizing 19th-century industry supports …
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman, and: Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott by Lela B. Costin (review)
648 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE and technology, if their alternative is to go to school to preachers like Warner. There is very little I can say for this book. It is poorly written (the author develops a fascination with the word “imperial,” for example, using it some eight times between page 179, where I began counting, and 213 where I gave up), and his inchoateness shows through. If you are a Boston fan—and an inexplicably large number …
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters
Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. Neil Longley York
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
The Agricultural-Industrial Transition in New England
Building Capitalism
Steam Power: A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930
Food for Thought in Philadelphia: The Larder Invaded
Exhibit Reviews FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN PHILADELPHIA: “THE LARDER INVADED” JUDITH A. MCGAW The history of food is inherently difficult to exhibit. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, culinary historians have had their “best evidence . . . eaten by its creators”;1 the surviving record lacks the gustatory and olfactory data that tell us most about food. More over, “a full scholarly context is only now emerging ... [in this] rel atively new …
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making 1801-1885
To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. Jeremy Atack , Fred Bateman
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Journal Article Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1830. Ed. by Judith A. McGaw. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 482 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5.) Get access Robert Blair St. George Robert Blair St. George University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1860
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries
Judith A. McGaw, Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 214-231
Memorial: Brooke Hindle, 1918-2001
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
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