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Work sights: the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America

Vanessa Meikle Schulman c2015 © University of Massachusetts Press
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  • 9781613763827 (ebook)
  • 9781625341945 (hardcover)
  • 9781625341952 (paper)
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  • Science & Technology
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction: Behold the Lightning Chained and Bound (page 1)
  • 1. Between Materiality and Magic: Representing the Railroad and the Telegraph (page 21)
  • 2. "Where Vulcan Is the Presiding Genius": John Ferguson Weir, Metallurgy, and the Alchemical Sublime (page 57)
  • 3. Swords into Ploughshares: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Labor (page 90)
  • 4. Sugar, Shipping, and Cityscapes: Mapping Systems in Thomas Moran's Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey (page 123)
  • 5. Managing Visions of Industry: The Managerial Eye (page 155)
  • 6. Laziness and Civilization: Picturing Sites of Social Control (page 193)
  • Conclusion: Twentieth-Century Echoes (page 227)
  • Notes (page 237)
  • Index (page 279)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SHA 83.2 (May 2017): 443-445 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/658076
AMP 27.1 (2017): 111-114 ttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/652272
TC 58.1 (January 2017): 269-271 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/648265
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