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Subject(s)

• Art and industry—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Art and technology—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Art and society—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Industries in art [Browse]
• Technology in art [Browse]
• National characteristics, American, in art [Browse]

Series

• Science/technology/culture [More in this series]
• Science/Technology/Culture

Notes

• Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Irvine, 2010) under title: Managing vision, envisioning management : representations of labor and technological systems in Gilded Age America.
• Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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.

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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

ISBN

• 9781625341952 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 1625341954 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 9781625341945 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1625341946 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))

SuDoc no.

-

LCCN

2015030475

OCLC

910596078

Hdl

• 2027/heb.33623

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