Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Behold the Lightning Chained and Bound
  • Between Materiality and Magic : Representing the Railroad and the Telegraph
  • "Where Vulcan Is the Presiding Genius" : John Ferguson Weir, Metallurgy, and the Alchemical Sublime
  • Swords into Ploughshares : Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Labor
  • Sugar, Shipping, and Cityscapes : Mapping Systems in Thomas Moran's Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey
  • Managing Visions of Industry : The Managerial Eye
  • Laziness and Civilization : Picturing Sites of Social Control
  • Conclusion : Twentieth-Century Echoes.