The American Manufactory : : Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic / / Laura Rigal.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 14 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. The Extended Republic in the Age of Manufactures
- PART I: FEDERAL MECHANICS
- CHAPTER ONE. Raising the Roof: Authors, Architects, and Artisans in the Grand Federal Procession of 1788
- CHAPTER TWO. The Mechanic as the Author of His Life: John Fitch's “Life” and “Steamboat History”
- PART II: THE MAMMOTH STATE
- CHAPTER THREE. Peale's Mammoth
- CHAPTER FOUR. The American Lounger: Figures of Failure and Fatigue in the Port Folio, 1801–1809
- PART III: THE STRONG BOX
- CHAPTER FIVE. Feathered Federalism: Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology, 1807-181
- CHAPTER SIX. Picture-Nation: Pat Lyon at the Forge, 1798-1829
- NOTES
- INDEX