Artisans for Independence
Author | : Charles S. Olton |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1975-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815601111 |
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Author | : Charles S. Olton |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1975-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815601111 |
Author | : Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2022-08-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1793639981 |
This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.
Author | : Robert F. Smith (Military historian) |
Publisher | : Westholme Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Industrial revolution |
ISBN | : 9781594162473 |
The Untold Story of the Industrial Revolution and the American Victory in the War for Independence Benjamin Franklin was serious when he suggested the colonists arm themselves with the longbow. The American colonies were not logistically prepared for the revolution and this became painfully obvious in war's first years. Trade networks were destroyed, inflation undermined the economy, and American artisans could not produce or repair enough weapons to keep the Continental Army in the field. The Continental Congress responded to this crisis by mobilizing the nation's manufacturing sector for war. With information obtained from Europe through both commercial exchange and French military networks, Congress became familiar with the latest manufacturing techniques and processes of the nascent European industrial revolution. They therefore initiated an innovative program of munitions manufacturing under the Department of the Commissary General of Military Stores. The department gathered craftsmen and workers into three national arsenals where they were trained for the large-scale production of weapons. The department also engaged private manufacturers, providing them with materials and worker training, and instituting a program of inspecting their finished products. As historian Robert F. Smith relates in Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution, the colonies were able to provide their military with the arms it needed to fight, survive, and outlast the enemy--supplying weapons for the victory at Saratoga, rearming their armies in the South on three different occasions, and providing munitions to sustain the siege at Yorktown. But this manufacturing system not only successfully supported the Continental Army, it also demonstrated new production ideas to the nation. Through this system, the government went on to promote domestic manufacturing after the war, becoming a model for how the nation could produce goods for its own needs. The War for Independence was not just a political revolution, it was an integral part of the Industrial Revolution in America.
Author | : Douglas E. Haynes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521193338 |
A history of artisan production in colonial and post-independence India, and its role in the country's society and economics.
Author | : Gonzalo J. S¾nchez |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780803242555 |
One need only remember the role of Jacques Louis David in the French Revolution of 1789 and the quasi-official status of art in French national history to understand the prominence of art and artists in the Fädäration des Artistes of the Paris Commune of 1871. Focusing on artists' political activities rather than their artistic efforts, Gonzalo J. S¾nchez Jr. examines the artists' assembly formed in the Commune, recounts the program and activities of the group and its members, and charts their fate after the fall of the Commune and during the ensuing repression of the Communards. ø Departing from the tradition established by Karl Marx, which views the Commune as a precursor of revolutionary socialism, the author portrays the artists' federation as a complex mixture of conservative and reformist elements, situated at a historical crossroads. These artists?including Gustave Courbet, Jules Häreau, Edouard Lockroy, Jules Dalou, and Läon and August Ottins?were part of a tradition of artists' assemblies dating to 1789 even as they argued for radical change in artists' social status and autonomy. Many of the reforms they advocated were realized during the Third Republic, making the federation a social and political, if not an aesthetic, precursor of modernism.
Author | : Howard B. Rock |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1995-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801850301 |
Contributing to US labor history, 11 essays from an October 1990 conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, discuss the experience and conditions of artisans from the perspectives of the southern experience, class and politics, biography, and iconographic interpretations. Among the topics are craft dynasties in 18th- century Maryland, the struggle for a 10-hour workday, alternative communities and the evangelical appeal, and working-class occupational portraits. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : John Ferling |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1635572770 |
Co-Winner of the 2022 Harry M. Ward Book Prize From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of fighting, American independence often seemed beyond reach. It was 1778, and the recent American victory at Saratoga had netted the U.S a powerful ally in France. Many, including General George Washington, presumed France's entrance into the war meant independence was just around the corner. Meanwhile, having lost an entire army at Saratoga, Great Britain pivoted to a “southern strategy.” The army would henceforth seek to regain its southern colonies, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, a highly profitable segment of its pre-war American empire. Deep into 1780 Britain's new approach seemed headed for success as the U.S. economy collapsed and morale on the home front waned. By early 1781, Washington, and others, feared that France would drop out of the war if the Allies failed to score a decisive victory that year. Sir Henry Clinton, commander of Britain's army, thought “the rebellion is near its end.” Washington, who had been so optimistic in 1778, despaired: “I have almost ceased to hope.” Winning Independence is the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain-so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation ultimately failed to win the war. The book explores the choices and decisions made by Clinton and Washington, and others, that ultimately led the French and American allies to clinch the pivotal victory at Yorktown that at long last secured American independence.
Author | : Howard B. Rock |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1995-11-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Given the fundamental changes that transformed American society in the years between Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship in a printer's shop and mid-19th-century efforts to organize labouring men and women, no social group offers a more interesting spectacle than skilled tradesmen or artisans. They came from various ethnic backgrounds (some worked in slavery), took their religion and politics seriously, lived mostly in cities but also in the countryside, and in many cases became pillars of their communities. American Artisans takes a fresh look at the role of artisans in the American economy and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Going beyond the traditional story of the decline of journeyman status, the authors explore a variety of themese loosely centered around opportunities in the developing economy. Indeed, many of these essays explore entrepreneurial ideals among artisans competing in the marketplace. Contributors to this collection examine the interaction of race and artisan economy in southern cities. They trace the passing down of intellectual capital-skill-from father to son and outline the economic relationships between merchant and artisan. They also explore the culture and politics of artisans, including religion, third-party partisanship, and the interaction of gender and reform. American Artisans is an important and originial contribution to a field of growing significance.
Author | : Craftsmen at Kells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Eric Foner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195174861 |
Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America hasbeen recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost politicalpamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate thepolitical, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for Americanindependence.Foner skillfully brings together an account of Paine's remarkable career witha careful examination of the social worlds within which he operated, in GreatBritain, France, and especially the United States. He explores Paine's politicaland social ideas and the way he popularized them by pioneering a new form ofpolitical writing, using simple, direct language and addressing himself to areading public far broader than previous writers had commanded. He shows whichof Paine's views remained essentially fixed throughout his career, whiledirecting attention to the ways his stance on social questions evolved under thepressure of events. This enduring work makes clear the tremendous impact Paine'swriting exerted on the American Revolution, and suggests why he failed to have asimilar impact during his career in revolutionary France. And it offers newinsights into the nature and internal tensions of the republican outlook thathelped to shape the Revolution.In a new preface, Foner discusses the origins of this book and the influencesof the 1960s and 1970s on its writing. He also looks at how Paine has beenadopted by scholars and politicians of many stripes, and has even been calledthe patron saint of the Internet.