Author: Elias Lyman MagoonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Oration Delivered July 4th, 1848, at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute, Cincinnati
Author: Elias Lyman MagoonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Oration, Delivered July 4, 1848, at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute
Author: Elias Lyman MagoonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Minding the Machine
Author: Stephen P. RicePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520926579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners—and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed—and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A bibliography of the state of Ohio
Author: Peter Gibson ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A Bibliography of the State of Ohio: Being a Catalogue of the Books and ...
Author: Peter Gibson ThomsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368626426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Regionalism and Reform
Author: Wendy Jean KatzPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814209066
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Before the Civil War, Cincinnati, Ohio, was considered the most important art center of what was then regarded as the U.S. West. In this book, Wendy Jean Katz explores the role of artists and art associations in moral and social reform in antebellum Cincinnati. Its leaders claimed for it the status of the future geographic and economic center of the nation, and supported art as part of their effort to forge a regional vision of morals and manners attractive enough to persuade their adoption nationally."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Author: Hamilton CravensPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817307931
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies Technical Knowledge in American Culture addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture, society, and era. These essays challenge the social impact model by looking at science, technology, and medicine not as social activities but as intellectual activities.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Author: Maggs Bros