LEADER 03472cam 22005538i 4500001 on1085621679 003 OCoLC 005 20190920154223.6 008 190128s2019 ncu b s001 0 eng c 010 2019002918 020 9781469653327 |q(cloth ; |qalk. paper) 020 146965332X 020 |z9781469653334 |q(ebook) 035 (Sirsi) 40029436531 035 40029436531 035 (OCoLC)1085621679 040 NcU/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dYDX |dBDX |dOCLCQ |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 HD9684.U62 |bZ34 2019 082 00 338.4/762132097309034 |223 100 1 Zallen, Jeremy, |eauthor. |=^A1388623 245 10 American lucifers : |bthe dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865 / |cby Jeremy Zallen. 263 1911 264 1 Chapel Hill : |bUniversity of North Carolina Press, |c[2019] 300 pages cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Dragged 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 "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 Lighting |zUnited States |xHistory |y18th century. |=^A13669 650 0 Lighting |zUnited States |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A13669 650 0 Lighting |xEconomic aspects. |=^A13669 650 0 Lighting |xPolitical aspects. |=^A13669 650 0 Labor |zUnited States |xHistory |y18th century. |=^A1001862 650 0 Slave labor |xHistory |y18th century. |=^A90617 650 7 Labor. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00989798 650 7 Lighting. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00998642 650 7 Slave labor. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01120393 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 |?UNAUTHORIZED 648 7 1700-1899 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 949 |i30372017333920 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s34.95 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 5187055