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001			on1085621679
003			OCoLC
005			20191224110242.0
008			190128t20192019ncuab b s001 0 eng c
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020			_a9781469653327 _qhardcover ; _qalkaline paper
020			_a146965332X _qhardcover ; _qalkaline paper
035			_a(OCoLC)1085621679
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043			_an-us---
092			_a338.4762 _bZ22
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aZallen, Jeremy, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAmerican lucifers : _bthe dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865 / _cJeremy Zallen.
264		1	_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a356 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aDragged up hither from the bottom of the sea -- Piney lights -- Dungeons and dragons and gaslights -- Lard lights and the pigpen archipelago -- Lucifer matches and the global violence of phosphorus -- Rock oil, civil war, and industrial slavery interrupted.
520			_a"American lucifers tracks how struggles to produce light transformed American history, beginning with the rise of the American whale fishery in the 1750s and culminating in the emergence, around the Civil War, of the petroleum industry and its primary product, kerosene. Between this shift from oil harvested from whales to oil extracted from rocks, American light was substantially derived from a substance called camphene, a highly explosive liquid mixture of spirits of turpentine and highly distilled alcohol, generally extracted from North Carolina pines by enslaved workers. Over the course of this narrative, Jeremy Zallen reveals the centrality of slavery to labor in gasworks, coal mines, guano islands, and factories that made illumination possible. Moreover, though the lights they created may have offered a veneer of progress and convenience, they also made it possible for industry to extract workers' and slaves' labor around the clock. The availability of these illuminants extended men's working days to the point that women and children were expected to shoulder all domestic labor as a matter of course"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aLighting _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aLighting _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLighting _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aLighting _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aLabor _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aSlave labor _xHistory _y18th century.
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