A History of the Amateur Woodworking Movement
A Decade-by-Decade Narrative of Amateur Woodworking in America From 1900 to 2000
Appendices:
Appendices Deal With Issues Special to Woodworking History, Incident to the Main Inquiry, But Sit Outside the Narrative
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Glossary Intro and Glossary Annexes
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Narrative Chapters
Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3 Chap 4 Chap 5 Chap 6 Chap 7 Chap 8 Chap 9 Chap 10 Chap 11 Chap 12
Headnote for Manuals Manuals by Decade
1900-before 1901-1910 1911-1920 1921-1930 1931-1940 1941-1950 1951-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000 2001-later
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Memoir of Forty Years of Woodworking
Appendix 2: The Morris Chair as an Icon of Amateur Woodworkers
Appendix 3: The Evolution of the Tilt-Arbor Table Saw (under construction)
Appendix 4: A Century of Woodworking Manuals (under construction)
Appendix 5: Note about the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and Index to Handicrafts and Make-It indexes (Reference Tools for Researching Woodworking History in the Twentieth Century)
Appendix 6: Evolution of the Woodworker's Cutting Edge
Appendix 7: Creativity and Woodworking: Is woodworking "process" or "product"? (under construction 6-22-07)
Appendix 8: The Newbie Woodworker’s Guide to the Anatomy and Physiology of Wood (under construction)
Appendix 9: Defining Industrial Arts: -- entry changed to Glossary entry, "Industrual Arts"
Appendix 10: Furniture Styles
Appendix 11: On the Origins of the Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts StyleAppendix 12: The Aesthetic Movement 1875 - 1885
Appendix 13: Defining Modernistic Furniture Design for Amateur Woodworkers in the 1930s
Appendix 14: Stanley Tools (Corporate) How to Work With Tools and Wood, 1927, & 1952
Appendix 15: Woodworker's Manuals in Public Libraries
Appendix 16: What is an Amateur Woodworker?
Appendix 17: Editorial Advisors
Appendix 18: On the Origin of the Radial Arm Saw
Appendix 19: The Impact of Electrification
Appendix 20: Notes on the Project Method
Appendix 21: History of the Fractional Horsepower Motor in America
Appendix 22: Hans Goldschmidt and his Shopsmith
Appendix 23: The 1920s and 1950s: Two Pivotal Decades in Amateur Woodworking
Appendix 24: From Production to Consumption: Does the Deskilling of the Handicraftsman Mean the Degradation of Labor?
Appendix 25: Notes for Piece on Modernism, Modernization, Modernity, Antimodern
Appendix 26: The Evolving Concept of Leisure
Appendix 27:Home-Ownership's Central Role for Amateur Woodworking
Appendix 28: Parallel Nature of Cookbooks and Woodworker's Manuals
Appendix 29: George C Kelley and Ray L Carter Develop the Router
Appendix 30: Notes on the Home Workshop Movement
Appendix 31: Directory of "Notes" on Colonial Revival Movement
Appendix 32 Directory of "Notes" on the Arts and Crafts Movement in America
Appendix 33: Woodworking as Reflective Thought: The History of Critical Thinking in Manual Education (Redirect to Glossary)
Appendix 34: Notes on the Democratization of Taste, The Domestication of Culture [under construction]
Appendix 35: Woodworking's Three-Legged Stool:-- Craftsmanship as Spirituality, Creativity, Culture
Appendix 37 - Notes on the "Art Chair" Theme
Appendix 38: Impact on Furniture Design With Emergence of Vernacular/Organic Architecture
Appendix 39 --Directory of British Arts and Crafts Movement
Appendix 40:-- Some Background on "Craft" as a Concept [not yet complete 5-4-2010]
Appendix 41: Foot-Powered And Hand-Powered Woodworking Machines
Appendix 42: Notes on Traditions in Woodworking Manuals in Britain [not yet complete 5-4-2010]