Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Adamson, Glenn, author.

Title Craft : an American history / Glenn Adamson.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2021.
©2021

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  680 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  680.973 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  680.973 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  680.973 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  680.973 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  680.973 ADA    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  680.973 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  680.973 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  680.973 ADAMSON    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  680.973 ADA    Check Shelf
Description 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-367) and index.
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.
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
Subject Industrial arts -- United States -- History.
Handicraft industries -- United States -- History.
Handicraft -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs.
Handicraft industries. (OCoLC)fst00951013
Handicraft -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00950994
Industrial arts. (OCoLC)fst00970804
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / General.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781635574586 (hardcover)
1635574587 (hardcover)
9781635574593 (ebook)
-->
Add a Review