Item Details

• Place Hold
• Find more by this author
• Find more on these topics
• Nearby items on shelf

• Item Information
• A Look Inside
• Catalog Record

• Bibliographic Information

  Title

  Craft : an American history

  Author

  Adamson, Glenn,  

  Publisher:

  Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.,

  Pub date:

  2021.

  Pages:

  387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  9781635574586

  • 9781635574586
  • Holdings

    Holdings
    Northwest (Lake Mary)	Copies	Material	Location
    680.973 ADA	1	Book	Nonfiction Shelving
    West (Longwood)	Copies	Material	Location
    680.973 ADA	1	Book	Nonfiction Shelving

  • All content

• Enriched Content

  Craft : an American history
  Adamson, Glenn,
  
  
  

  ---

  Quick Links

  ---

  
  

• MARC Record

  Craft : an American history
  Adamson, Glenn,
  

  Personal Author:

  Adamson, Glenn,

  Title:

  Craft : an American history / Glenn Adamson.

  Physical description:

  387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

  Contents:

  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?

  Summary:

  "A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

  Summary:

  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

  Held by:

  WEST NORTHWEST

  Subject term:

  Industrial arts--United States--History.

  Subject term:

  Handicraft industries--United States--History.

  Subject term:

  Handicraft--Social aspects--United States.

  Subject term:

  Handicraft industries.

  Subject term:

  Handicraft--Social aspects.

  Subject term:

  Industrial arts.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Social life and customs.

  Geographic term:

  United States.

  Genre index term:

  History.