Harvesting history : McCormick's reaper, heritage branding, and historical forgery / Daniel P. Ott.

"Harvesting History explores how the highly contentious claim of Cyrus McCormick's 1831 invention of the reaper came to be incorporated into the American historical canon as a fact. Spanning the late 1870s to the 1930s, Daniel P. Ott reveals how the McCormick family and various affiliated businesses...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ott, Daniel P. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Subjects:	McCormick, Cyrus Hall, > 1809-1884. Harvesting machinery > United States > History. Inventors > United States > Biography. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy) Harvesting machinery. Inventors. United States. Biographies. History.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies. History.
Physical Description:	xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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