Screen LibraryWork sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America /
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University of Massachusetts Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amherst, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Science/Technology/Culture
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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781625341945 1625341946 9781625341952 1625341954 |
| Index Number: | N72 |
| CLC: | J171.209.4 |
| Call Number: | J171.209.4/S386 |
| 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. |