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Title Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / Vanessa Meikle Schulman.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Amherst
Boston : University of Massachusetts Press
Creation Date [2015]
Notes 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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.
Series Science/technology/culture
Extent 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010701222105171
MARC RECORDS
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