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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Main Author: Rigal, Laura, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chichester : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Economic history.
Civilization.
Art and society.
Artisans.
Enlightenment.
Industrialization > Social aspects.
Intellectual life.
Art, American > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > 18th century > themes, motives, etc.
Enlightenment > United States > Case studies.
Industrialization > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Artisans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Artisans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Art and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Art and society > United States > History > 18th century.
United States.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Intellectual life > 18th century.
United States > Economic conditions > To 1865.
United States > Civilization > 1783-1865.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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