The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early RepublicThis cultural history of American federalism argues that nation building cannot be understood apart from the process of industrialization and the making of the working class in the late eighteenth century United States. Citing the coincidental rise of federalism and industrialism, Laura Rigal examines the creations and performances of writers, collectors, engineers, inventors, and illustrators who assembled an early national "world of things," at a