Craft : an American history / Glenn Adamson.
Examine any phase of our nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there: from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanship has often been a site of resistance for oppressed people, such as enslaved African-Americans whose skilled labor might confer hard-won agency under bondage, or the Native American makers who adapted traditional arts into statements of modernity. He argues that these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635574586
- ISBN: 1635574587
- Physical Description: 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The artisan republic -- A self-made nation -- Learn trades or die -- A more perfect union -- Americana -- Making war -- Declarations of independence -- Cut and paste -- Can craft save America? |
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Subject: | Industrial arts > United States > History. Handicraft industries > United States > History. Handicraft > Social aspects > United States. United States > Social life and customs. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | 680.973 A221c 2021 (Text) | 33126024363149 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |