Bibliography
The Amish and Related Groups
Bringing the Airtight Revolution into the Kitchen. Aylmer, Ontario: Suppertime Stoves, n.d.
“The Choice of Two Evils,” Family Life (Feb. 1976), 10-13. A story about why Amish don’t have telephones.
Cronk, Sandra. Gelassenheit: The Rites of the Redemptive Process in Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite Communities. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1977.
Dyck, Cornelius (ed.). An Introduction to Mennonite History. Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1993.
Fisher, Gideon. Farm Life and Its Changes. Gordonville, Pennsylvania: Pequea Publishers, 1978.
Gallagher, Thomas Edward, Jr. Clinging to the Past or Preparing for the Future? The Structure of Selective Modernization Among the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Ph.D. Dissertation, Temple University, 1981.
Glick, Ivan J. “Farm Sale,” The Draft Horse Journal. (Fall 1982), 10-13.
Good, Merle. Who Are the Amish? Intercourse, Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1999.
Good, Merle and Phyllis. Twenty Most Asked Questions about the Amish and Mennonites. Intercourse, Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1995.
Horst, Isaac R. Separate and Peculiar. Mt. Forest, Ontario: Isaac R. Horst, 1979.
Hostetler, John A. Amish Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Huntington, Gertrude Enders. Dove at the Window: A Study of an Old Order Amish Community in Ohio. Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 1957.
Johnson, Warren A., Victor Stoltzfus and Peter Craumer. “Energy Conservation in Amish Agriculture,” Science, Vol. 198 (Oct. 1977), 373-378.
Kline, David. “No-Till Farming and Its Threat to the Amish Community,” Festival Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall 1986), 7-10.
Kollmorgen, Walter M. Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community: The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Life Studies, 1942.
Kraybill, Donald B. The Riddle of Amish Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
“The Leacock Lamp,” The Coleman Lite, No. 7 (April 1984), 1-2.
Logsdon, Gene. “Produce Acres, A Horse-Powered Vegetable Farm,” The Draft Horse Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 1987-1988), 5-14.
The Mennonite Encyclopedia. Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1959, 1972.
Nordell, Eric. “Lancaster Forecarts,” Small Farmer’s Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Summer 1988), 56-59.
Scott, Stephen E. Plain Buggies. Intercourse, Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1998.
Stoll, Elmo. One-Way Street. Aylmer, Ontario: Pathway Publishers, 1972.
Stoll, Joseph. “When the Old-Fashioned Was New-Fangled,” Young Companion (August 1988), 27-32.
Umble, John (ed.). “Memoirs of an Amish Bishop,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, XXII (April 1948), 94-116.
Wagler, David L. Are All Things Lawful? Aylmer, Ontario: Pathway Publishers, n.d.
_____. “The Oldest Form of Energy,” Family Life (January 1985), 38 ff.
Wagler, David S. History and Change of the Amish Community of Reno County, Kansas. Unpublished paper. Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, 1968.
“Welcome to the World of New 1983 Horse Machinery,” The Draft Horse Journal (Autumn 1983), 7-20.
General Technological History
Anderson, Oscar Edward, Jr. Refrigeration in America: A History of a New Technology and Its Impact. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1953. Reissued, Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1972.
Bobrowski, Robert George. Rediscovering the Woodburning Cookstove. Old Greenwich, Connecticut: Chatham Press, 1976.
A Brief History of the Origin and Use of Coleman Lamps and Lanterns. Wichita, Kansas: The Coleman Company, 1980.
Courter, J. W. Aladdin—The Magic Name in Lamps. Simpson, Illinois, J. W. Courter, 1971.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to Microwave. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
DeBono, Edward (ed.). Eureka, An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer. New York: Holt-Rinehart, 1974.
Ebendorf, Herbert W. The Gasoline Self-Heating Iron. Wichita, Kansas: The Coleman Company, n.d.
_____. Gas from Gasoline. Wichita, Kansas: The Coleman Company, 1972. A history of gasoline pressure lamps.
Franklin, Linda Campbell. From Hearth to Cookstove. Florence, Alabama: House of Collectibles, 1976.
Giedon, Siegfried. Mechanization Takes Command. New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. Reprinted, New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
Glissman, A. H. The Evolution of the Sad Iron. Oceanside, California: M.B. Printing, 1970.
Lantz, Louise K. Old American Kitchenware 1725-1925. Hanover, Pennsylvania: Everybody’s Press, 1970.
Lifshey, Earl. The Housewares Story. Chicago: National Housewares Manufacturing Association, 1973.
Matson, Tim. Alternative Light Styles. Woodstock, Vermont: Countryman Press, 1984.
Maytag Wringer Washers 1907-1983. Newton, Iowa: The Maytag Company, n.d.
Mercer, Henry C. (edited by Horace M. Mann and Joseph Sanford). The Bible in Iron: Pictorial Stove and Stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans. Doylestown, Pennsylvania: Bucks County Historical Society, 1961.
Panati, Charles. Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.
Pierce, Josephine H. Fire on the Hearth: The Evolution and Romance of the Heating Stove. Springfield, Massachusetts: Pond-Ekberg, 1951.
Russell, Loris S. A Heritage of Light. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968.
_____. Handy Things To Have Around the House. Toronto: McGraw Hill-Ryerson, 1979.
Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York: Pantheon, 1982.
Thuro, Catherine M. V. Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America. Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace Homestead, 1976.
Worthington, William E., Jr. Beyond the City Lights: American Domestic Gas Lighting Systems. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1985.
Technology on the Farm
Baker, T. Lindsay. A Field Guide to American Windmills. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America. San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1977.
Cummins, C. Lyle. Internal Fire: The Internal Combustion Engine 1673-1900. Lake Oswego, Oregon: Carnot Press, 1976.
Danhof, Clarence. Change in Agriculture, The Northern U.S. 1820-1870. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1969.
Fletcher, Stevenson Whitcomb. Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life (two volumes). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1955.
Hurt, R. Douglas. American Farm Tools. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1982.
Johnson, Paul C. Farm Power in the Making of America. Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace Homestead, 1978.
_____. Farm Inventions in the Making of America. Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace Homestead, 1976.
McKinley, Marvin. Wheels of Farm Progress. St. Joseph, Michigan: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1980.
Macmillan, Don and Russel Jones. John Deere Tractors and Equipment, Volume I 1837-1959. St. Joseph, Michigan: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1988.
Miller, Lynn R. Work Horse Handbook. Reedsport, Oregon: Mill Press, 1981.
Mills, Robert K. Implement and Tractor: One Hundred Years of Farm Equipment. Overland Park, Kansas: Intertech, 1986.
Power to Produce, The Yearbook of Agriculture 1960. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1960.
Quick, Graeme and Wesley Buchele. The Grain Harvester. St. Joseph, Michigan: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1978.
Rosenberg, S. H. (ed.), Rural America a Century Ago. St. Joseph, Michigan: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1976.
Schlebecker, John T. Whereby We Thrive, A History of American Farming 1607-1972. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1975.
Telleen, Marice. The Draft Horse Primer. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1977.
Wendel, C. H. American Gasoline Engines Since 1872. Sarasota, Florida: Crestline Publishing, 1983.
_____. One Hundred Fifty Years of International Harvester. Sarasota, Florida: Crestline Publishing, 1981.
Newer Resources
Crable, Ad. “Cell Phones, Computers More and More Part of Lancaster County Amish’s Real World.” Lancaster Online. (May 18, 2004). Available at: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/cell-phones-computers-more-and-more-part-of-lancaster-county/article_432d645c-def6-11e3-9e84-001a4bcf6878.html
Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. “Technological Diversity and Cultural Change Among Contemporary Amish Groups.” Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 88, No. 1 (Jan. 2014), 5–22.
Kraybill, Donald B., Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt. The Amish. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Miller, Levi. Our People: The Amish and Mennonites of Ohio, 3rd edition. Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 2004.
Websites
Amish America: http://www.amishamerica.com/
Amish Studies: http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO): http://www.gameo.org
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies: http://www.etown.edu/centers/young-center/