Made in Newark : : Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era /

Made in Newark : : Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era / / Ezra Shales.

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What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum? Made in Newark describes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Shales, Ezra,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.) :; 77 illustrations. 12 color and 65 black and white halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Cultivating the Industrial City
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Engine of Culture
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Virtues of Industry
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Molding and Modeling Civic Consumption
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Weaving the New into the Old
  • CHAPTER SIX. A Parade of Civic Virtue
  • CONCLUSION. The Industrious Citizen
  • NOTES

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