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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 15 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Jennifer M. Dixon. |
| Summary |
"The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution-from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century-from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Home economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Stoves, Coal -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Cooking, British -- History -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Dixon, Jennifer M..
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781705248911 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705248918 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13567583 |
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