Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America

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

Author/creator	Schulman, Vanessa Meikle, 1981- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
Description	xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Art and industry--United States --History --19th century. Art and technology--United States --History --19th century. Art and society--United States --History --19th century. Industries in art. Technology in art. National characteristics, American, in art.

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)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	N72 .I53 S38 2015	✔ Available	Place Hold