Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
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Description: Alternative view of the history of the cotton gin as an aspect of global history and an artifact of the industrial development of Southern USA. Author: Angela Lakwete.
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by Angela Lakwete - Powell's Books One afternoon in the mid-1990s, I found myself in Dauphine Street Books in New Orleans, staring hungrily into a vitrine containing costly literary...
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| Description: | Inventing the Cotton Gin by Angela Lakwete: Angela Lakwete revisits the myths evoked by Eli Whitney's cottin gin and discovers that gins existe for centuries before his 1794 invention. Her compelling study explores this tool as an artifact of global history and a barometer of southern industrial development... |
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