Object lessons : how nineteenth-century Americans learned to make sense of the material world / Sarah Anne Carter.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Carter, Sarah Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Education--United States--History--19th century.
• Perceptual learning.
• Material culture--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

'Object Lessons' examines the ways material things - objects and pictures - were used to reason about moral issues, the differences between reality and representation, race, citizenship, and capitalism in the nineteenth-century United States.

Notes:

• Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 16, 2018).

ISBN:

• 0-19-022505-X
• 0-19-090831-9