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Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

Carter, Sarah Anne

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0190225033
ISBN13: 9780190225032
Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
Published: Aug 6 2018
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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

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