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Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled
Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan
court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition
expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and a
host of previously overlooked figures.
In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the
last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the
horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons
were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the
previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and
most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a
forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of
nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel
mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing
Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day--one every six
minutes. Across the country, smaller factories fashioned vast
quantities of buggies, farm wagons, and luxury carriages. Today, if
we think of carriage and wagon at all, we assume it merely
foreshadowed the automobile industry. Yet., the carriage industry
epitomized a batch-work approach to production that flourished for
decades. Contradicting the model of industrial development in which
hand tools, small firms, and individual craftsmanship simply gave
way to mechanized factories, the carriage industry successfully
employed small-scale business and manufacturing practices
throughout its history.
"The Carriage Trade" traces the rise and fall of this
heterogeneous industry, from the pre-industrial shop system to the
coming of the automobile, using as case studies Studebaker, the New
York-based luxury carriage-maker Brewsters, and dozens of
smallerfirms from around the country. Kinney also explores the
experiences of the carriage and wagon worker over the life of the
industry. Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study
contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial
revolution.
Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled
Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan
court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition
expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and a
host of previously overlooked figures.
In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to
Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean
theater.
Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of
Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.
Focuses on the material conditions of playing and of playgoing.
Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government and
regulation.
Each topic is considered in relation to a selection of
Shakespeare's plays.
Shows students how the plays and the context in which they were
produced illuminate one another.
In this engaging text, Arthur F. Kinney introduces students to
Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean
theater. He focuses on the material conditions of playing and of
playgoing in order to show how they both inspired and restricted
Shakespeare's art. Subjects treated range from the venues where
Shakespeare's plays were first performed and the practicalities of
the acting profession to the composition of audiences and the
cultural and regulatory contexts in which companies of players
operated. Each topic is discussed in relation to a diverse
selection of Shakespeare's plays as well as contemporary documents,
so that the plays and the theatrical world in which they were
produced constantly illuminate one another. A core of 22 plays is
considered in total.
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