Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / Vanessa Meikle Schulman.
| Author/creator | Schulman, Vanessa Meikle, 1981- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015] |
| Description | xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Managing vision, envisioning management |
| Series | Science/Technology/Culture Science/technology/culture. ^A1314857 |
| 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. |
| General 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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2015030475 |
| ISBN | 9781625341952 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1625341954 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781625341945 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1625341946 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | N72 .I53 S38 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |