This is the first collection of primary sources by and about artisans in the early national era.

Mary Ann Littrell and Marsha Ann Dickson utilize case studies to introduce past successes and failures for seven Alternative Trading Organizations (ATO's).

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.

Eileen Boris explores the ways in which the Arts and Crafts Movement was related to the trends of its time. She both describes the leading participants and puts the movement into a new and larger context that involves labor as well as art.

The Biographical Dictionary provides a welcome companion to Ian McNeils earlier Encyclopedia of the History of Technology, in which hundreds of characters made tantalisingly brief appearances before receding into the shadows.

Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job.

Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition.

With her talent for mending things, sixteen-year-old Tanaquil reconstructs a unicorn which, brought to life, lures her away from her desert fortress home and her sorceress mother to find a city by the sea and the way to a perfect world.