The American Manufactory : Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic.

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This cultural history of American federalism argues that nation-building cannot be understood apart from the process of industrialization and the making of the working class in the late-eighteenth-century United States. Citing the coincidental rise of federalism and industrialism, Laura Rigal examin...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rigal, Laura
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Artisans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Artisans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Art, American > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > 18th century > Themes, motives.
Art, American > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > 19th century > Themes, motives.
Enlightenment > United States > Case studies.
Artisans > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Artisans > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Industrialisation > Aspect social > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Art américain > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > 18e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Art américain > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > 19e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Siècle des Lumières > États-Unis > Études de cas.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Art, American > Themes, motives
Artisans
Enlightenment
Industrialization > Social aspects
Intellectual life
Geistesleben
Handwerk
Industrialisierung
Productiewijze.
Arbeiders.
Cultuur.
Artisans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Enlightenment > United States.
Art, American > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Industries > United States > History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
United States
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Intellectual life.
Case studies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The extended republic in the age of manufactures
  • PART I: FEDERAL MECHANICS: Raising the roof: authors, architects and artisans in the Grand Federal Procession of 1788
  • The merchants as the author of his life: John Fitch's "Life" and "Steamboat History"
  • PART II: THE MAMMOTH STATE: Peale's Mammoth
  • The American lounger: figures of failure and fatigue in the Port Folio, 1801-1809
  • PART III: Feathered federalism: Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology, 1807-1814
  • Picture-nation: Pat Lyon at the Forge, 1798-1829.

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