American Lucifers
Subtitle: Makers and Masters of the Means of Light, 1750-1900
Contributors: Johnson, Walter; St. John, Rachel; Brown, Vincent; Rothschild, Emma
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Description: This dissertation examines the social history of Atlantic and American free and unfree labor by focusing on the production and consumption of the means of light from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing from archives across the country, I reconstruct the ground-level experiences and struggles of the living (and dying) bringers of lights--those American lucifers--and the worlds they made in the process.
Notes: Keywords: Environmental, Industrial, Labor, Light, Slavery, Social.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2014