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Subtitle: the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America
By: Vanessa Meikle Schulman
Series: Science/Technology/Culture
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst and Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781625341952; 9781625341945
Subjects: Technology in art; Art and society; Art and industry; Art and technology; Industries in art; National characteristics, American, in art; History
Work titles: Managing vision, envisioning management
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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Behold the Lightning Chained and Bound; title: Between Materiality and Magic : Representing the Railroad and the Telegraph; title: "Where Vulcan Is the Presiding Genius" : John Ferguson Weir, Metallurgy, and the Alchemical Sublime; title: Swords into Ploughshares : Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Labor; title: Sugar, Shipping, and Cityscapes : Mapping Systems in Thomas Moran's Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey; title: Managing Visions of Industry : The Managerial Eye; title: Laziness and Civilization : Picturing Sites of Social Control; title: Conclusion : Twentieth-Century Echoes.