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Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan ReesSeries:Studies in Industry and SocietyPublish date:2016-06-15Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9781421419862ISBN-10:1421419866UPC:9781421419862Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:History, Social Aspects, Economic HistorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCJSGXW40G

How we keep food cold while the house stays warm.

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9781421419862ISBN-10:1421419866UPC:9781421419862Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:History, Social Aspects, Economic HistorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCJSGXW40G

Jonathan Rees is a professor of history at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is the author of Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction and Refrigerator.


Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Jonathan Rees

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