A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania
A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania

Author: Diane E. Wenger

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0271047690

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"Examines the role that country storekeeper Samuel Rex of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, played in the society and economy of the mid-Atlantic region from 1790 to 1807. Studies consumption patterns of one typical Pennsylvania-German community"--Provided by publisher.

The Potato
The Potato

Author: Larry Zuckerman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1999-10-25

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1466812435

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The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating.

Proceedings
Proceedings

Author: American Railway Bridge and Building Association

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13:

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