Craft : an American history / Glenn Adamson.
"A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635574586
- ISBN: 1635574587
- Physical Description: 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-367) 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? |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Industrial arts > United States > History. Handicraft industries > United States > History. Handicraft > Social aspects > United States. United States > Social life and customs. |
Genre: | Informational works. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 680.973 ADAMSON 2021 (Text) | 0001002433603 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Craft : An American History
A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the 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." From Mother Jones to Rosie the Riveter. From Betsy Ross to Rosa Parks. From suffrage banners to the AIDS Quilt. 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. Theirs are among the array of memorable portraits of Americans both celebrated and unfamiliar in this richly peopled book. As Adamson argues, these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. From the beginning, America had to be-and still remains to be-crafted.