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Jonathan Rees - Refrigeration Nation - 9781421411064 - V9781421411064
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Refrigeration Nation

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Description for Refrigeration Nation Rees shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural world. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFCD; KCZ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Industry and Society
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421411064
SKU
V9781421411064
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-40

About Jonathan Rees
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.

Reviews for Refrigeration Nation
A smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food. American Historical Review Rees has written an entertaining, well-narrated, and well-researched book about building one root infrastructure of modern food systems. He brings this infrastructure to the foreground of U.S. history, and hopefully the book ... Read more

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