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Refrigeration Nation

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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.

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ISBN: 9781421419862
Publication date: 10th August 2016
Author: Jonathan (Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo) Rees
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 248 pages
Series: Studies in Industry and Society
Genres: History of the Americas
History of engineering and technology
Economic history