Abstract

Contents: Introduction Section I Towards a Topography of Art Patronage and Class Identity: The manufactured patron: competing conceptions of cultural philanthropy Sacred precincts: staging class identity through art consumption. Section II Industrialism, Science, and Managerial Over-Sight: Iron horses: Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge, and the industrialized eye Supervision: landscapes of systems and management in the gilded age. Section III Industrialism and the Manufacture of Regional History: White gold: Edwin Crocker and Charles Nahl's Sunday Morning in the Mines Missionary work: Jane Stanford, educational philanthropy, and the mission revival Conclusion: the man with the dough, or Westward hoe! Bibliography Index.

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