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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what
still might be Whether looking inward to the intricacies of human
anatomy or outward to the furthest recesses of the universe,
expanding the boundaries of human inquiry depends to a surprisingly
large degree on the making of models. In this wide-ranging volume,
scholars from diverse fields examine the interrelationships between
a model's material foundations and the otherwise invisible things
it gestures toward, underscoring the pivotal role of models in
understanding and shaping the world around us. Whether in the form
of reproductions, interpretive processes, or constitutive tools,
models may bridge the gap between the tangible and the abstract. By
focusing on the material aspects of models, including the digital
ones that would seem to displace their analogue forebears, these
insightful essays ground modeling as a tactile and emphatically
humanistic endeavor. With contributions from scholars in the
history of science and technology, visual studies, musicology,
literary studies, and material culture, this book demonstrates that
models serve as invaluable tools across every field of cultural
development, both historically and in the present day. Modelwork is
unique in calling attention to modeling's duality, a dynamic
exchange between imagination and matter. This singular publication
shows us how models shape our ability to ascertain the surrounding
world and to find new ways to transform it. Contributors: Hilary
Bryon, Virginia Tech; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Seher Erdogan Ford,
Temple U; Peter Galison, Harvard U; Lisa Gitelman, New York U; Reed
Gochberg, Harvard U; Catherine Newman Howe, Williams College;
Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue U; Martin Scherzinger, New York U;
Juliet S. Sperling, U of Washington; Annabel Jane Wharton, Duke U.
The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question:
how do we study material culture when the objects of study are
transient, evanescent, dispersed, or subjective? Such things resist
the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and
archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful
collections. What holds the disparate things studied here together
are the questions the authors ask of them. Each essay creates by
means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive
archive. Scattered matter becomes fixed within each author's
analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive's
reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows
the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged,
conceptualized, and even displayed rather than "discovers"
artifacts in an archive and asks how they came to be there. The
authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of
learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in
subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach,
making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick
reference or, if read straight through, building toward a new way
to think about material culture.
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the
eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non
elite Americans. In a path breaking and richly illustrated
examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that
geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres
significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from
the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography,
cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner
recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property
plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school
geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects
such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic
revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner
demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of
language helped shape the literary construction of the modern
American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings,
""The Geographic Revolution in Early America"" proposes a new,
geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their
character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.
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