American Artisans,9780801850301

American Artisans

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ISBN13: 9780801850301
ISBN10: 0801850304
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-10-01
Publisher(s): Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Identity and Independence: The American Artisan, 1750--1850 xi
Paul A. Gilje
PART I. STUDIES OF THE SOUTHERN EXPERIENCE
From Father to Son: Economic Roots of Craft Dynasties in Eighteenth-Century Maryland
3(14)
Christine Daniels
Freemen, Servants, and Slaves: Artisans and the Craft Structure of Revolutionary Baltimore Town
17(16)
Tina H. Sheller
Planters in the Making: Artisanal Opportunity in Georgia, 1790--1830
33(15)
Michele K. Gillespie
Slave Artisans in Richmond, Virginia, 1780--1810
48(17)
James Sidbury
PART II. EXPLORATIONS OF CLASS AND POLITICS
Alternative Communities: American Artisans and the Evangelical Appeal, 1780--1830
65(12)
Ronald Schultz
The Petitioning of Artisans and Operatives: Means and Ends in the Struggle for a Ten-Hour Day
77(21)
Teresa Murphy
``Spavined Ministers, Lying Toothpullers, and Buggering Priests'': Third-Partyism and the Search for Security in the Antebellum North
98(25)
Bruce Laurie
PART III. BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES
Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham: The Struggle for Artisanal Independence in Early-Nineteenth-Century Boston
123(12)
Gary J. Kornblith
From Artisan to Alderman: The Career of William W. Moore, 1803--1886
135(20)
William S. Pretzer
PART IV. ICONOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS
``All Her Sons Join as One Social Band'': New York City's Artisanal Societies in the Early Republic
155(21)
Howard B. Rock
With Hammer in Hand: Working-Class Occupational Portraits
176(23)
Harry R. Rubenstein
Notes 199(46)
Contributors 245(2)
Index 247

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