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Author Schulman, Vanessa Meikle, 1981- author.

Title Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / Vanessa Meikle Schulman.

Publication Info. Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm.)
text file
Series Science/Technology/Culture
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Note 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.
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject National characteristics, American, in art.
National characteristics, American, in art.
Technology in art.
Technology in art.
Industries in art.
Industries in art.
Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Art and society.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Art and technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Art and technology.
Art and industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Art and industry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Project Muse.
Added Title Managing vision, envisioning management https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015047629
Other Form: Print version: 9781625341952 1625341954 9781625341945 1625341946 (DLC) 2015030475 (OCoLC)910596078
ISBN 9781613763827 (electronic book)
1613763824 (electronic book)
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