| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Canada and the United States

Laura Rigal. The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 253. $29.95.

The concepts and vocabulary of cultural studies have played an increasingly vital role in recent early American history writing. (Re)defining culture as clusters of linguistic, visual, and conceptual representations and practices, a growing number of early Americanists have explored such diverse phenomena as self-fashioning, class formation, and the creation of American nationalism. Laura Rigal adds to this new approach an astute analysis of early national culture. In Rigal's account, manufactory carries a double meaning, representing both the transformation of American artisan production into machinofacture and the manufacturing of a broader national culture based in the concept of production. . . .

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