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Object Lessons - How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World (Hardcover)
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Object Lessons - How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World (Hardcover)
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Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make
Sense of the Material World examines the ways material
things-objects and pictures-were used to reason about issues of
morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and
representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern
scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to
describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in
the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across
the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the
world through their senses-touching and seeing rather than
memorizing and repeating-leading to new modes of classifying and
comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of
objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter
argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and
comprehend the information in things-from a type-metal fragment to
a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color
insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for
contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of
nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.
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