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040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dYDX _dEBLCP _dP@U _dJSTOR
020			_a9781469653341 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aHD9684 _b.A447 2019
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aZallen, Jeremy, _e1
245	1	0	_aAmerican lucifers : _bthe dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865 / _cby Jeremy Zallen.
260			_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c(c)2019.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aDragged up hither from the bottom of the sea -- _tPiney lights -- _tDungeons and dragons and gaslights -- _tLard lights and the pigpen archipelago -- _tLucifer matches and the global violence of phosphorus -- _tRock oil, civil war, and industrial slavery interrupted.
520	0		_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.
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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.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2233573&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell