Rossi, Michael (Author)
The Republic of Color delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultural, and demographic crises, the standardization of color became a means of social reform—a way of sculpting the American population into one more amenable to the needs of the emerging industrial order. Delineating color was also a way to characterize the vagaries of human nature, and to create ideal structures through which those humans would act in a newly modern American republic. Michael Rossi’s compelling history goes far beyond the culture of the visual to show readers how the control and regulation of color shaped the social contours of modern America—and redefined the way we see the world.
...MoreReview Robert Brain (2021) Review of "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 412-414).
Review Jennifer Guiliano (2022) Review of "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America". Journal of American History (pp. 440-441).
Review Clemens Finkelstein (2021) Review of "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America". HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology (pp. 153-155).
Review Jane Kromm (2020) Review of "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 315-317).
Review Jane Kromm (2020) Review of "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 315-317).
Thesis
Rossi, Michael Paul;
(2011)
The Rules of Perception: American Color Science, 1831--1931
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Article
Erich Weidenhammer;
(2015)
August Kirschmann and the Material Culture of Colour in Toronto’s Early Psychological Laboratory
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Alexis L. Boylan;
(2020)
Visual Culture
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Petry, Yvonne;
(2013)
Vision, Medicine, and Magic: Bewitchment and Lovesickness in Jacques Grevin's Deux livres des venins (1568)
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Essay Review
Nieto-Galan, Agustí;
(2015)
Revisiting Colour History
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(2014)
Visual Music: Jazz, Synaesthesia and the History of the Senses in the Weimar Republic
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(2014)
Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History
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Talia Bess Shabtay;
(2021)
See, Think, Learn: Creativity and Limits in Early Cold War Art and Technology
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(2013)
Helmholtz, Riemann, and the Sirens: Sound, Color, and the “Problem of Space”
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(2018)
The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America
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(2007)
A Pocketful of Hops: Hop Growing in the Bromyard Area
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(2006)
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
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(2019)
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
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(2012)
The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s--1970s
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(2020)
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
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(2012)
Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California
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(2013)
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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Knowles, Anne Kelly;
(2013)
Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800--1868
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Berman, Elizabeth Popp;
(2012)
Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
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Andrew Jewett;
(2020)
Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
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