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02753aam a2200373 i 4500 001 7E26E8B0FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190128t20192019ncuab b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019002918 020 $a 146965332X 020 $a 9781469653327 035 $a (OCoLC)1085621679 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d NGU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD9684 U62 Z34 2019 100 1 $a Zallen, Jeremy, $e author. 245 10 $a American lucifers : $b the dark history of artificial light, 1750-1865 / $c Jeremy Zallen. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b University of North Carolina Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 356 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea -- Piney lights -- Dungeons and dragons and gaslights -- Lard lights and the pigpen archipelago -- Lucifer matches and the global violence of phosphorus -- Rock oil, civil war, and industrial slavery interrupted. 520 $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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Lighting $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Lighting $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Lighting $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Lighting $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Labor $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Slave labor $x History $y 18th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406013810.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7E26E8B0FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search