In this volume, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two automata - both depicting piano-playing women.

Chapters center on the craftsmen who celebrated the Constitution by marching in Philadelphia's Grand Federal Procession of 1788; the autobiographical writings of John Fitch, an inventor of the steamboat before Fulton; the exhumation and ...

When these artisans first fled France for England and Holland, then left Europe for America, they carried with them both their skills and their doctrine of security through artisanal secrecy."

In the only modern study synthesizing nineteenth-century American labor history, Bruce Laurie examines the character of working-class factionalism, plebian expectations of government, and relations between the organized few and the ...

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

This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia, covering the period ca. 8000-300 B.C.E. As creators ...

Joel Beinin's book offers a survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.

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.