When these artisans first fled France for England and Holland, then left Europe for America, they carried with them both their skills and their doctrine of security through artisanal secrecy."

The Biographical Dictionary provides a welcome companion to Ian McNeils earlier Encyclopedia of the History of Technology, in which hundreds of characters made tantalisingly brief appearances before receding into the shadows.

Chapters center on the craftsmen who celebrated the Constitution by marching in Philadelphia's Grand Federal Procession of 1788; the autobiographical writings of John Fitch, an inventor of the steamboat before Fulton; the exhumation and ...

An encyclopedia guide to the thousand-year history and dynamic future of the distillation of whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, brandy, and more.

In this volume, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two automata - both depicting piano-playing women.

Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition.

This is the first collection of primary sources by and about artisans in the early national era.

Joel Beinin's book offers a survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.